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

2. Tour du Mont Blanc map

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

4. Vista above Contimes (France)

5. Gentians near Notre Dame de la Gorge (France)

6. Corn lily with Alps view (France)

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

8. Morning vista from the French-Italian border

9. An alpine meadow entering Italy

10. La Casermetta

11. Our first cappuccino stop rifugio in Italy

12. Another view of our first cappuccino rifugio

13. Italian valley and stream heading to Courmayeur

14. On the Tour du Mont Blanc towards Courmayeur

15. The Brenva face of Mont Blanc with wild flowers

16. Les Grandes Jorasses with flowers

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

18. Edelweiss (Leontopodium alpinum)

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

20. Crossing a snow field near the Col du Grand Ferret

21. Morning vista from my balcony in La Fouly (Switzerland)

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

23. Showing how to rest on a rock

24. Ibex

25. Ibex (photo courtesy of Adam Bazire)

26. At the Col des Montets with Mont Blanc

27. Mont Blanc from above the Chamonix Valley (zoom)

28. Final day group photo above the Chamonix Valley