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    A Tour of Mont Blanc: And other circuitous adventures in Italy, France and Switzerland

    By David Le Vay

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    Mont Blanc, or ‘Il Bianco’ as it is sometimes known as in Italy; The White One. It sits, regally, upon pleated glacial folds gathered together around a timeless, grey-rock body, high above the French town of Chamonix, lord of all that it surveys. It beguiles, bewitches and charms the lesser folk who seek to frolic and play amongst the buttressed foothills of its ancient frame. In a muddy field somewhere in Cornwall on New Year’s Day, two men make a pact to tackle Western Europe’s highest mountain. Call it a mid-life crisis, with not only his daughter about to leave for university but also the rapidly approaching prospect of his fiftieth birthday to consider: walking 170 kilometres across a mountain range seems the perfect antidote. Humorous, reflective and poignant, this is the story of a journey around one of the world’s most iconic mountains, through an area that is full to bursting with stories to remember.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSummersdale Publishers Ltd
    Release dateAug 4, 2014
    ISBN9781783722150
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    A Tour of Mont Blanc: And other circuitous adventures in Italy, France and Switzerland
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    David Le Vay

    David Le Vay lives in southwest London. He is a child therapist and a senior lecturer at Roehampton University, a jazz pianist in a band that gigs regularly around SW London and a keen cricket player.

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    • 3/5
      Mont Blanc holds the title of the highest mountain in Europe. Sitting high above the French town of Chamonix, it is the pinnacle of the Alps. It has long been a draw to those wishing to conquer it and stand on its heights. It is a magnificent peak, but it is a killer too, claiming the lives of climbers on a regular basis. As he is approaching 50, Le Vay decides that climbing it is not really an option, so in a muddy field on New Years day in Cornwall, he decides that they will walk round it on the circular path called the Tour de Mont Blanc.

      Le Vay walks and talks us round the massif in this part travel book, and part history of the mountain. He has set himself a reasonable schedule walking between the gîtes on the route. We learn about those that climbed it first, those that have lost their lives and the cultural significance of the mountain to the three countries that sit at its foot. There is the odd amusing situation in the book, and they spend a lot of the walk with others pairs and family who are doing the same route. It is not an exceptional book, just a lovely account of the trail round Mont Blanc, but most importantly it has brought to my attention a walk that I would like to do one day.