Tour du Mont Blanc — Stage 13: Rifugio Elisabetta Soldini → Courmayeur
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1 / 315.9 km
+461 m
−1532 m
7.5 h
Nivel físico
Mapa y ruta
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Descripción
Puntos clave
Salida
Rifugio Elisabetta Soldini · 2189 m
Llegada
Courmayeur · 1225 m
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.
Ciencias de la Tierra
Geología y paisaje
The Mont Blanc massif is a Hercynian granite batholith (~300 million years old) uplifted by the Alpine orogeny: the pale Mont Blanc granite — the “protogine” — forms the Peuterey and Géant spires. At its feet the tour walks on older crystalline basement rocks (gneiss and micaschist) and, in Val Veny, on the Mesozoic limestones of the Pyramides Calcaires, a sliver of sedimentary cover pinched between the granites. The Miage and Brenva moraines are textbook examples.
Historia y cultura
Courmayeur is home to Italy’s oldest guides’ company (1850): the Duca degli Abruzzi museum in the village keeps the ropes and axes of the first great climbs on Mont Blanc’s south side.
Fuentes de agua
Water at the stage's support points (Rifugio Elisabetta Soldini, Rifugio Maison Vieille, Courmayeur). On the high ground and at the passes springs are not guaranteed: fill bottles in the valley and at the huts.
Cómo llegar
Aosta Valley side served by VITA buses and connections from Aosta; many valley heads have summer shuttles. Check seasonal timetables at arriva.it / vita-vda.com.
Aparcamiento
Refugios y vivacs
Galería de fotos
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Etapas contiguas
AEditado y verificado por Andrea Rama
Fuente de datos: Tour du Mont Blanc — itinerario internazionale segnalato · Traccia calcolata su rete sentieri OpenStreetMap (ODbL); verificare sul terreno
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