Climbing Mont Blanc is an amazing experience! The itinerary is tailored to focus on your objectives and maximise your chance to reach the summit. With 3 days mountain training skill course, you improve your mountain climbing skills, get enough time to acclimatize and built up your knowledge about safety on glaciated terrain.

 

The 6 days itinerary is opened to experienced climber with a former mountaineering experience along with enough confidence walking on glaciated terrain with crampons on alpine terrain. The 2 days climb involves that you are in excellent physical conditions, have strang stamina with a good walking pace in altitude.

 

The itinerary leads you to the Mont Blanc summit in 2 days. You climb directly to The Gouter hut to gain altitude with a stop for a picnic lunch at Tête Rousse hut. You climb higher and get above the clouds in shorter time if the weather conditions are not good. At 3800m altitude, you benefit from more stable weather conditions while Tête Rousse at 3200m is blanketted with clouds. You also have the opportunity to spend an overnight in higher altitude to be fully acclimatized. The next morning, you have better chance to start your climb under a clear sky full of stars.

 

Before the climb, you learn the use of crampons on glacier terrain and get ice axe skills with 3 days of skill training on Ecole de Glace followed by 2 summits to climb -Tête Blanche and Aiguille du Tour- to improve your technique and enjoy the mountain panorama.

 

Although the climb does not require any previous mountaineering experience, the ascent requires that climbers are physically and mentally fit with a strong determination. You must be able to withstand long hours of walk in high altitude on a steady pace. Climbing Mont Blanc is a challenging adventure.

 

Climbing in the Alps is risky and hard training workouts weeks before the climb will help minimizing the risks of injuries and Acute Mountain Sickness. Training should be based on long runs and cardio workouts to improve your stamina and resistance. Go climbing and jog for at least one hour in the hills increasing incline. Be prepared for long walks and strenuous efforts.

This is the most popular of all routes to the summit of Mont Blanc. You take the Tramway du Mont Blanc from St Gervais station to the Gouter Hut for overnight.

 

Youawake up at 2pm and start your ascent along the Dome du Gouter on Glacier terrain. After a short break near Vallot hut you ascent through a glacier terrain to the Bosses Ridge using crampons and ice axe. This snow ridge is exposed and requires that your are determined, fit and have alpine technique knowledge. You arrive to the summit at dawn for an awe-inspiring view of the surrounding peaks and the Chamonix valley.  

The best season is from July to mid of September. However, July and August have experienced very warm temperatures that reduce safety on snow slopes increasing the number of opened creavasses, fragile snow briges, falling seracs and melt snow in lower slopes.

 

Since recently, June and September seem to be a more ideal time to attempt the summit of Mont Blanc with better freezing conditions and lower temperatures in altitude insuring more stable snow terrain.

Weather conditions are often incertain in the Alps. To give you the best chance of success, we have planned a contingency day if the weather conditions does not allow you to climb to the summit. You have an extra day at the Gouter Hut, waking up at 2am on the next morning for the second attempt.

 

Some climbers come from long way to climb Mont Blanc and are sometimes desappointed with instable weather conditions experiencing storms and rain falls in the valley. Your guide could then propose you an alterntive itinerary based on the initial journey.

 

The guide will have the ability to alter, modify or change your itinerary at all times. For safety matters, his decision is final.