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Tour du Mont Blanc

Stage 10. Argentière - Planpraz

Cable Car to Chamonix

Wednesday 21st August 2019

Stage 10. Schedule

	From	To	Distance Km	Time Hrs	Ascent m	Descent m
10-1	Argentière (1,250m)	Tre-le-Champ (1,417m)	2.5		170
10-2	Tre-le-Champ (1,417m)	Lac Blanc (2,352m)	4.5		950
10-3	Lac Blanc (2,352m)	La Flégère (1,877m)	3.0			490
10-4	La Flégère (1,877m)	Junction above Planpraz (2,100)	5.0		270
	Argentière (1,250m)	Junction above Planpraz (2,100)	15	6H30	1,390	490

Garmin GPS Actual Data
Argentière to Lac Blanc

Distance Time Elevation in meters

Km Elapsed
Hrs-Mins Gain Loss Min Max

7.14 3H49 1,146 46 1,259 2,361

Garmin GPS Actual Data
Lac Blanc to Planpraz

Distance Time Elevation in meters

Km Elapsed
Hrs-Mins Gain Loss Min Max

10.18 3H14 565 178* 1,815 2,390

* Exclude 896 m descent on l'Index chairlift

Garmin GPS Actual Data
Argentière to Planpraz

Distance	Time	Elevation in meters
Km	Elapsed Hrs-Mins	Gain	Loss	Min	Max
17.32	6H03**	1,711	224	1,259	2,390

** Excludes 50 minutes spent at Lac Blanc

Route to Lac Blanc (with alternative route from Tre le Champ)

Leaving the road in Argentière and beginning the climb

The climb to Lac Blanc was relentless, and began shortly after leaving the hotel

The posted time to Lac Blanc is 3 hours 20 mins; we did it in 3 hours 49 minutes which is not bad!

We were soon getting hot!

Notification that the Lac Blanc - La Flégère route was closed due to the rebuilding
of the refuge and the upgrading of the cable car

Update 7th October 2019

Work is on track for the new La Flégère gondola to open in December 2019. Refuge La Flégère will re-open for 2020 as the gondola construction will be complete. After a change in management, Refuge Lac Blanc was re-opened for the 2019 hiking season.

Courtesy of www.tourdumontblanc.club

We took the Lac Blanc Bis route at this point

Reminiscent of Haystacks in the Lake District at some points

Refuge du Lac Blanc 2,352m

Looking across to the Mer du Glace

My last trip to Lac Blanc..... July 1990

Normally the route would go down to La Flégère, but because the lodge had been damaged by fire and the cable car back to the valley floor was closed, we were forced to take another, more arduous route. We traversed to the top of l'Index chair lift, took the lift down to La Flégère, and then traversed across to Planpraz cable car. This meant for the day a total climb of 1,711 meters; this in itself was a lot, but since the Planpraz cable car closed at 5 pm we had to make the traverse quicker than normal. It was a tough day!