“Ultimate” Tour du mont blanc Mont Blanc (15,771 ft) and the Chamonix Valley

Tour du Mont Blanc map

Mont Blanc and Lupines near the Col de Tricot (France)

Vista above Contimes (France)

Gentians near Notre Dame de la Gorge (France)

Corn lily with Alps view (France)

Location disc at Col de la Seigne (2513m) entering Italy

Morning vista from the French-Italian border

An alpine meadow entering Italy

La Casermetta

Our first cappuccino stop rifugio in Italy

Another view of our first cappuccino rifugio

Italian valley and stream heading to Courmayeur

On the Tour du Mont Blanc towards Courmayeur

The Brenva face of Mont Blanc with wild flowers

Les Grandes Jorasses with flowers

Grande Jorasses lunch vista (my group is in lower right)

Edelweiss (Leontopodium alpinum)

View into Switzerland from the Col du Grand Ferret (2537m)

Crossing a snow field near the Col du Grand Ferret

Morning vista from my balcony in La Fouly (Switzerland)

Glacier d’Ornay from Cabane d’Ornay (Switz Glacier d’Ornay from Cabane d’Ornay (Switz.), our highpoint on the trip at 2831 meters

Showing how to rest on a rock

Ibex

Ibex (photo courtesy of Adam Bazire)

At the Col des Montets with Mont Blanc

Mont Blanc from above the Chamonix Valley (zoom)

Final day group photo above the Chamonix Valley