My Tour du Mont Blanc in detail: gear, guidebook, camping, weather + more!

In July 2024 I completed the Tour du Mont Blanc (TMB) with my friend, Diana. We decided to do this hike just two months before and to camp the whole thing, so I spent two months researching as much as I could, getting lighter gear, choosing a guide book, and watching other people's TH-cam videos. In this video I hope to share some of the tips and considerations that should help others plan their own TMB adventure, especially as there is limited guidance on camping it instead of staying in refuges. I talk about the sleeping bag comfort rating you should have, the tent I used, my favourite of the two guide books I bought, and some things I would change if I were to do it again. I'll also talk you through the route I followed including the variants, and some of the places I camped - both paid campsites and wild camps. I hope it is useful :)

[@dianaboguzeviciute1470]

Ah such a good video! Very informative and really beautifully put together. VERY NICE!!! 😎

[@janinelouw1730]

😊Great video, thank you! Would also do wild camping, please list places you did. Greetings from Cape Town

[@ja.ssch.]

@@janinelouw1730 thanks 🙂 So we wild camped in the couple of kilometres after Rifugio Bonatti, in the woodland a couple of kilometres before Champex-Lac, at Lacs des Cheserys (after the first section of ladders but before Lac Blanc) and at Lac du Brévent just a few hundred metres off the trail. We had free camping at Refuge de Miage on night one, Refuge de la Balme on night two and by the toilets in Ville des Glaciers on night 3, then paid campsites at Hobo Camping (bus from Courmayeur), La Fouly and La Peuty.

[@janinelouw1730]

Thank you and good evening to you 😊all. Xx