TMB - one day down, ten left

Well today we started the tour of Mt Blanc, an 11 day walking tour around the Mont Blanc massif, covering about 170 km and ascending and descending around 8000m at least. We all were ruthless in deciding what to put in our packs but still they seem so heavy - probably 8 or 9 kgs each.

We made today a little easier by taking a cable car up 600m, but still we were stuffed when we arrived at Hotel Le Grizzli in Les Contamines. The pack did seem to get lighter by the end of the day; maybe because we ate lunch and drank water, or maybe we were adjusting. Tomorrow will be a test as we have to ascend 1300m and descend 900m. If we survive thqt the rest of the tour should be doable.

There is no Internet cafe here but the hotel owner is letting us use his notebook. However the French keyboard is a chqllenge as the letters A and Q are swapped around and I have to keep correcting things.

Graeme had quite some difficulty with breathing on the Zermatt walk so we are hoping he is ok tomorrow with the altitude being a couple of hundred metres lower.

There will probably be no more posts until Courmayeur in 3 days.