Courmayeur
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Sep 11, 2026
Antonio CodinaGUEST
It really is an experience to cross the villages, and the bells are ringing all the time, day and night.
Antonio CodinaGUEST
Um, when you come back to Courmayeur, you, you are a fucking hero, right? Okay.
KateHOST
[laughs]
Antonio CodinaGUEST
I, I cannot even describe...
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
Then he read the telegram, and his face grew very grave.
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
Lattery telegraphed from Courmayeur, the Italian village just across the chain of Mont Blanc.
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
"Starting now by Col du Géant and Col des Nantillons." The Col du Géant is the most frequented pass across the chain, and no doubt the easiest.
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
Once past its great icefall, the glacier leads without difficulty to the Montenvers Hotel and Chamonix.
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
The gravity on Chain's face changed into a deep distress.
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
Lattery's party would have slept out one night, certainly.
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
They would have made a long march from Courmayeur and camped on the rocks at the foot of the pass.
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
It was likely enough that they should have been caught upon that rock wall by night upon the second day.
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
Then he read the telegram, and his face grew very grave.
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
Lattery telegraphed from Courmayeur, the Italian village just across the chain of Mont Blanc.
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
"Starting now by Col du Geant and Col de Nantillon." The Col du Geant is the most frequented pass across the chain, and no doubt the easiest.
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
Once past its great icefall, the glacier leads without difficulty to the Mont Enver hotel and Chamonix.
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
"When did this come?" "Three days ago." The gravity on Chaine's face changed into a deep distress.
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
Lattery's party would have slept out one night, certainly.
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
They would have made a long march from Courmayeur and camped on the rocks at the foot of the pass.
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
It was likely enough that they should have been caught upon that rock wall by night upon the second day.
Finn MelansonHOST
...
Finn MelansonHOST
in Courmayeur, Italy.
Finn MelansonHOST
And to do it, I am joined by friend, fellow podcaster, FKT aficionado.
Finn MelansonHOST
He's wearing the Tor shirt, if you're watching on YouTube, Will Petersen.
Will PetersonGUEST
So, um, we, we spent a lot of time out there and we've modeled the, we've modeled the whole course out in various different ways and, uh, it's, yeah, it's a, it's a doozy of a course.
Will PetersonGUEST
It really is.
Finn MelansonHOST
So course vitals here, it's, it's a 330-ish, big emphasis on ish, kilometer single loop race around the perimeter of the Aosta Valley, over 78,000 feet of elevation gain, starts and finishes in Courmayeur, Italy, which is gonna be familiar to a lot of folks who just followed our UTMB coverage, passes through the Italian Alps, Gran Paradiso National Park, Mont Avic Regional Park.
Finn MelansonHOST
I mean, that's just the overhead wheel.
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
Then he read the telegram and his face grew very grave.
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
Lattery telegraphed from Courmayeur, the Italian village just across the chain of Mont Blanc.
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
"Starting now by Col du Géant and Col des Nantillons." The Col du Géant is the most frequented pass across the chain and no doubt the easiest.
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
Once past its great icefall, the glacier leads without difficulty to the Mont Enver hotel and Chamonix.
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
"When did this come?" "Three days ago." The gravity on Chane's face changed into a deep distress.
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
Lattery's party would have slept out one night certainly.
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
They would have made a long march from Courmayeur and camped on the rocks at the foot of the pass.
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
It was likely enough that they should have been caught upon that rock wall by night upon the second day.
Jake CatterallGUEST
From there, we did the TDS.
Jake CatterallGUEST
So the TDS would go in reverse to Courmayeur, which is on the other side of the mountain.
Jake CatterallGUEST
From there, there are these two mountain circuits.
Jake CatterallGUEST
So it's the ETC and the YCC.
Jake CatterallGUEST
So we did that all in the same day.
Jake CatterallGUEST
And then the CCC, so the Courmayeur to Chamonix route, we took that one back to Chamonix.
Jake CatterallGUEST
And then from there, we finished with the PTL.
Jake CatterallGUEST
And the PTL is a 300 kilometer, basically off-trail alpine mission, which, by the way, is the most ruthless trail run ever.
Caroline LiveseyHOST
Yeah, so it goes around Mont Blanc, um, or the Mont Blanc massif, so this sort of mountain range.
Caroline LiveseyHOST
You start in Chamonix, you go into Italy, into Courmayeur, um, all the way around the back to Switzerland.
Caroline LiveseyHOST
So you're then in sort of Courmayeur, uh, Champex-Lac is the next kind of aid point where the, um, crew can get to you.
Caroline LiveseyHOST
And then they go Vallorcine back into Chamonix.
Caroline LiveseyHOST
So, uh, like, it, it, yeah, France, Italy, Switzerland, back into France.
Leah YinglingHOST
But like I got...
Leah YinglingHOST
My stomach was so bloated all the way up to before we were descending down into Courmayeur and just super like nauseous every time I'd even have an extra sip of carbs.
Leah YinglingHOST
So like I think in my mind in the future when that happens to me, I mean, A, I won't do what I did on that stretch, but like really reset with water for probably close to an hour if I need to.
Leah YinglingHOST
because I just like couldn't take any carbs in for a while.
Ben DhimanGUEST
Every time I saw the watch coming in an aid station, I just said, "You got probably 10 minutes to get there.
Ben DhimanGUEST
You better hustle so that you make it under whatever." Under, well under eight hours Courmayeur.
Ben DhimanGUEST
Under 10-- I made it under 10 hours to Arnuva, which is, like, sick.
Ben DhimanGUEST
That's, like, 100 kilometers.
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Ben DhimanGUEST
The way if you went out on a nice, uh, if you went out on the town, you wanna lay down a good base before you got on the town, you know? Like, if you're gonna really put a bunch of, of stuff in the stomach at a high concentration and make it miserable, you should have some solid food in there, uh, to avoid gastric distress.
Ben DhimanGUEST
So I was eating, yeah, coconut rice balls, uh, peanut butter jelly sandwich.
Ben DhimanGUEST
I had some soup and rice in Courmayeur.
Ben DhimanGUEST
I had, um, some oats, cold-soaked oats with coffee inside of them in Champex-Lac.
LewisGUEST
I love
Jay GradyHOST
Courmayeur and maybe the last 10 miles start to get chunky, I thought.
Jay GradyHOST
But you know, it's...
Jay GradyHOST
Yeah, it's...
LewisGUEST
Where did you fall? Jay, I fell on one of the few paved sections.
Jay GradyHOST
This is the thing.
Jay GradyHOST
I'm pretty sure Mark Derbyshire broke his arm on a, tripping on a sleeping policeman, I think it was, in, Mark, if you're listening, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think he tripped in the tarmac section in Courmayeur, sitting in 13th from what I remember.
Jay GradyHOST
Oh, God.
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