Tour du Mont Blanc

The Tour du Mont Blanc circles the whole massif in 166 km, a high loop that steps across the Alps of three countries. We draw it from real map data, matched to the road itself. The preview on screen is the finished poster, and it ships straight away.

Make it yours: 17 art styles, 19 colourways and your own title, with the poster redrawing live as you pick.

Giclée-printed at 300 dpi on 200 gsm matte art paper. Framed posters come in black, white or natural timber, ready to hang.

The preview is the finished poster. What you approve on screen is exactly what we print, with no proof to wait on.

The route

From Chamonix the path climbs over the Col de la Seigne into Italy, drops to Courmayeur under the massif's south face, then climbs again over the Grand Col Ferret into Switzerland before turning back through Champex and over the Col de Balme into France to finish. A Genevan scientist named Horace Bénédict de Saussure walked the whole loop in 1767 searching for a way up Mont Blanc itself; a century later wealthy Victorian tourists did the same circuit for pleasure, most of them on muleback.

Walkers now cover roughly 10,600 m of climbing over the full loop, split across nine to fourteen days between mountain refuges that change menu with the border: polenta and cheese on the Italian side of the Grand Col Ferret, tartiflette back on the French. The massif itself never leaves view, and its glaciers can be seen from three different countries in the same afternoon.

Made for someone who walked it. Or for your own wall, because you did.

Related routes: Camino de Santiago, Coast to Coast and GR20 Corsica.

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