UTMB – Sur les Traces des Ducs de Savoie

What: 105K Alps Run
Distance: , Ultramarathon
Where: Chamonix, , France
When: 08/29/2009
Website: http://www.ultratrailmb.com/page.php?page=tdspresentation

Seven valleys, 71 glaciers, 400 summits… The Mont Blanc range is fascinating.
Doing the Tour du Mont Blanc, allows one to discover an incomparable universe, the impressive and magical high mountains; it is sharing the eternal dream of the pioneers, crossing the magical gardens of Gaston Rebuffat and the stories of Roger Frison Roche and discovering the intimate geography of the summits: the roundness of the Mont-Blanc, the ridge of Bionnassay, the Noire de Peuterey, the Dent du Géant, the wall of the Grandes-Jorasses, the northern and southern peaks of the Aiguille du Tour, the Aiguille Verte, the vertical of the Drus.
The range is a permanent show of rocs, water ice and light. From the Chamonix Valley to Courmayeur, from the wild Val Ferret to Bovine, along the French, Italian and Swiss sides, the track ventures between pastures, glaciers et peaks, crossing the Cols du Bonhomme, Seigne, Grand Ferret, and Balme. The astonishing theatre of nature plays its best role. Successive forests on slopes, oaks, beeches, fir, spruce, pine trees, suddenly faint replaced by juniper moss and likens. On the ground, flowers are blooming: gentians, carnations, rhododendrons, sulphur anemones, sempervivum.
The North Face® Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc® invites you to live an adventure out of the ordinary by participating to one of the 4 races that we offer :

• UTMB® : approximately 166 km and 9 400 m of + altitude change- 46 h max.
Start Friday 28th August at 6:30pm from the centre of Chamonix Mont-Blanc.
• CCC® : approximately 98 km and 5 600 m of + altitude change – 26 h max. Start Friday 28th august at 9:00am from the centre of Courmayeur (Italy).
• Sur les Traces des Ducs de Savoie : approx. 105km and 6700m + altitude change. Start Saturday 29th august at 5:00am from the centre of Chamonix Mont-Blanc.
Cross-country race following the paths of the Grande Randonnée of Mont-Blanc country and Beaufortain.Mountain event, including many high altitude passages (>2500m), in climate conditions which could be very tough (night, wind, cold, rain or snow), necessitating some very good training, suitable equipment and a real capacity for personal autonomy.
• La Petite Trotte à Léon : approximately 250 km and 18 000 m +altitude change. Start during the night of 25th august from the centre of Chamonix Mont-Blanc.