Tour du Mont Blanc — Stage 13: Rifugio Elisabetta Soldini → Courmayeur

From Rifugio Elisabetta cross the Lac Combal plain, dammed by the Miage glacier moraine, then climb onto the Arp Vieille–Mont Favre balcony with the whole south side of Mont Blanc on parade. Via the Col Chécrouit and Maison Vieille you finally descend to Courmayeur, where the loop closes.

The grand Italian finale. The alluvial plain of Lac Combal, with its milk-coloured braided streams, is one of the loop’s most photogenic spots: the short detour to the moraine-locked Miage lake is worth it. Then climb onto the Arp Vieille balcony, where Mont Blanc’s southern side shows itself whole — Miage, Brouillard, Freney, Peuterey, one name after another. At the Col Chécrouit, Maison Vieille serves the loop’s last polenta; the final steep drop to Courmayeur through the Dolonne woods can be skipped by gondola in season. The circle closes in the square, beneath the bell tower.