Mont Blanc for Downderry

That’s right… we arrived back yesterday having successfully completed the Tour of Mont Blanc! The eleven stages took us 14 days to complete, due to a couple of rest days and some bad weather (we had two days of snow above 2,000 metres!), but we managed to complete the circuit still feeling fit and capable. We’re really pleased to have succeeded in what we set out to do and didn’t really want to come back!

In the near future, we will be posting a day by day account of our progress around the Tour, so you can find out exactly what we got up to, and hopefully as a motivator for anybody else who might be thinking about undertaking the Tour of Mont Blanc or a similar long distance walk.

In the meantime, we need to start collecting the oustanding sponsorship money. If you haven’t yet paid your sponsorship, please get in touch with either myself or Gaëlle.

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Gaëlle is pictured here with some of the newspaper articles that have appeared in the local press about our attempt on the Tour of Mont Blanc. Already the hits to the website have increased - hopefully it will have a big impact on sponsorship!

On Saturday, we had a photo shoot for a local paper. Gaëlle was nervous to begin with, but I think she secretly enjoyed it once she got into the swing of it! The photos were taken at Cheesewring Quarry, so after it ended we carried on doing a bit of climbing, and Gaëlle finally managed to top out on a climb that has been her nemesis since the first time she came climbing with me.

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