🏔️tour du mont blanc 🥾 2024

Hey Hikers!

I’ve been getting this question a lot in the facebook group so wanted to share here too.

The Tour du Mont Blanc IS the most popular trek in Europe and yes, it’s worth doing at least once. And yes, booking it is a hassle. It’s hard, but beginner friendly.

You can plan it yourself, you can pay an agency to do the bookings for you to go “self-guided”, or you can simply go in a group with a guide who does everything and you just show up.

It’s up to what you want and each method has pros and cons.

However in late Feb, it’s a challenge to DIY or even get a slot with a group.

I’ve looked into several companies and I found a local Chamonix guide that helped me last year book my own.

They didn’t even charge me to find all the routes and gondolas so I want to share a few of their guided tours in return for helping me book my own huts last year.

Currently they have a few slots in a small group with local guides for 2024:

• Aug 3-11

• Aug 10-18

• Sep 7-15

• Sep 14-22

• July is booked out

Click here to see dates and book a guided trip on the TMB.

It’s 9 days travel, but only 7 real hiking days. If you can, I’d highly, highly recommend an extra day or two on either end to soak up Chamonix and go paragliding off Brevent.

It’s an incredible experience to see the mountains you’re going to hike around from the air!

This hiking tour utilizes transfers to skip the boring bits (well, nothing is boring, but some parts are less exciting) so you can hike the highlights. The maximum mileage is 13 miles per day.

I have NOT used a guided tour company around Mt Blanc myself, but this outfit was incredibly generous to me and the guides know this area in and out per our conversations.

In case you missed it:

Watch my video from 2023 where we hiked 5 days on the TMB using as many gondolas as possible. It’s a 5 part series to show you what it’s really like on trail. Watch here

Here’s an assortment of self guided treks that don’t require as much planning ahead as the popular Alta Via 1 and Tour du Mont Blanc.

✈️ This is my favorite kind of hiking tour! These are best accessed from Innsbruck, Austria or Munich, Germany.

• 8 days Culinary Hiking Tour: This hut-to-hut hiking tour in Austria and Switzerland offers mouthwatering food by top chefs, breathtaking scenery, a good calorie burn, and can be customized to meet any fitness and comfort level.

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• 6 Days Hut to Hut Tour: This family-friendly hiking tour in a lesser-known area of the Alps offers well-cared for trails, spectacular scenery, no crowds, and easy access from Innsbruck, with options for family-sized rooms in the huts, although it's best to avoid late-June and early September due to snow.
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• 3 Days Culinary Hiking Tour: This hut-to-hut hiking tour in one of Austria's premier hiking regions offers mouthwatering food by top chefs, breathtaking scenery, a good calorie burn, and can be customized to meet any fitness and comfort level, although it's best to avoid late-June and early September due to snow.
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• 8 Days Bike Tour Across Alps: This beginner-friendly bicycle tour across the Alps follows a historic Roman trading route, offers impressive views, and ends at Lake Garda, with the option to skip uphill passages by taking a shuttle at an additional cost, starting in Garmisch, Germany and passing through Austria and vineyards in Italy, with well-established signage and routing that makes the tour enjoyable for cyclists of all levels.
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