Mountain hutIT
2,195 m
©Rifugio Elisabetta Soldini
Val Veny (Lée Blanche) · TMB km 49.9
A large stone refuge of the CAI Milano perched on a rocky spur at the foot of the Lée Blanche Glacier, about an hour's…
Elevation profile
1,000 m1,250 m1,500 m1,750 m2,000 m2,250 m2,500 m0 km2 km4 km6 km8 km10 km12 km14 km16 kmArête du Mont-Favre 2,430 m
| Waypoint | Altitude | Km |
|---|---|---|
| Rifugio Elisabetta | 2,195 m | 0 km |
| Lac Combal | 1,940 m | 3.2 km |
| Arête du Mont-Favre | 2,430 m | 5.9 km |
| Col Chécrouit | 1,956 m | 10.4 km |
| Courmayeur | 1,224 m | 16.8 km |
The route
First you descend to the Lac Combal plain, once a lake dammed by the moraine of the Miage Glacier and now a vast marsh crossed by a causeway. The trail then tackles the southern slope to reach the Arête du Mont-Favre, at around 2,430 m.
This balcony is one of the finest sections of the tour: opposite, the Miage Glacier snakes beneath the Aiguille de Trélatête and Mont Blanc. The trail then follows the ridges to the Col Chécrouit and the Rifugio Maison Vieille, in the heart of the Courmayeur ski area.
The final section is a steep descent of more than 700 m to Dolonne and then Courmayeur. To spare your knees, you can ride down from Plan Chécrouit on the Dolonne gondola (in season). Courmayeur has every service: hotels, ATMs, sports shops and a pharmacy.
In bad weather: the Val Veny
If the ridge is in cloud or there are thunderstorms, the descent along the floor of the Val Veny is safer, and buses run to Courmayeur in season. See the Val Veny variant.
Practical tips
- Courmayeur is the ideal place for a rest day halfway round.
- Withdraw some cash: some huts in the Val Ferret and in Switzerland prefer to be paid in cash.
- On a rest day, the Skyway Monte Bianco at Entrèves takes you on an excursion up to Pointe Helbronner (3,466 m).
Variants on this stage
Stage map
Where to stay on stage 4?
Accommodation along the stage, at the finish or on its variants, in walking order.
Val Veny (Elisabetta, Combal) 2 places to stay
GîteIT
1,968 m
Cabane du Combal
Lac Combal (Val Veny) · TMB km 53
A small private structure beside the Val Veny track, between Lac Combal and the moraine of the Miage Glacier, where…
Lower Val Veny (La Visaille, Zerotta) 6 places to stay
CampgroundITvariant
1,560 m
Hobo Camping
Cuignon (Val Veny) · TMB km 60
A bohemian-style campground on a large meadow at Cuignon, in the Val Veny, with standard pitches, tipis, a yurt and…
CampgroundITvariant
1,525 m
Camping Aiguille Noire
La Zerotta (Val Veny) · TMB km 60.3
A large 2-star campground at La Zerotta, among the meadows and forests of the Val Veny, about 6 km from Courmayeur…
CampgroundITvariant
1,510 m
Camping Monte Bianco La Sorgente
Peuterey (Val Veny)
A family campground nestled in a conifer forest at Peuterey, in the heart of the Val Veny, about 5 km from Courmayeur…
Mountain hutITvariant
1,700 m
©SurroundingsRifugio Monte Bianco (CAI UGET)
La Fodze (Val Veny) · TMB km 60.8
A CAI UGET Turin refuge built in 1952 at La Fodze, on the Val Veny side, and reachable in summer by a drivable track…
HotelITvariant
1,480 m
Albergo Val Veny
Plan Ponquet (Val Veny)
A 2-star mountain-style hotel, isolated in the meadows of Plan Ponquet, a few hundred meters from the…
B&BIToff route
1,905 m
Pré de Pascal (chambres)
Pré de Pascal (Val Veny)
A mountain restaurant run by the same family since 1972 on the Val Veny side of the Courmayeur ski area, facing the…
Col Chécrouit 2 places to stay
Mountain hutIT
1,956 m
©Rifugio Maison Vieille
Col Chécrouit · TMB km 60.2
A private refuge at the Col Chécrouit, in the middle of the Courmayeur ski area, at the exact spot where the TMB…
GîteIT
1,900 m
Gîte Le Randonneur du Mont Blanc
Pra Neyron (Chécrouit) · TMB km 60.9
A renovated former refuge run by the Ollier family, Courmayeur guides for four generations, at Pra Neyron, five…
Courmayeur 19 places to stay
HotelIT
1,224 m
Hotel Des Glaciers
Dolonne · TMB km 64.7
The former Glarey house of the village of Dolonne, converted into a family hotel in 1985 by the former guide Alessio…
HotelIT
1,224 m
Hotel Dolonne
Dolonne · TMB km 64.7
A recently renovated 16th-century fortified house in the heart of the old village of Dolonne, a short distance from…
HotelIT
1,280 m
Hotel Stella del Nord
Dolonne · TMB km 64.7
A family hotel in the hamlet of Dolonne, at the foot of Mont Chétif, about 800 m from the center of Courmayeur and…
HotelIT
1,224 m
Hotel Ottoz
Dolonne · TMB km 64.9
A hotel without restaurant in Dolonne, completely renovated in wood and local stone in 1994, about 700 m from the…
HotelIT
1,224 m
Chalet-Hotel Svizzero
Courmayeur · TMB km 65.3
A 4-star chalet hotel born after the war on the model of a Swiss chalet, carefully renovated while keeping its…
HotelIT
1,224 m
Hotel Bouton d'Or
Courmayeur (center) · TMB km 65.5
A 3-star hotel without restaurant, built and run by the Casale Brunet family, at the entrance to the town, a few steps…
B&BIT
1,224 m
Le Vieux Pommier (chambres)
Courmayeur (piazzale Monte Bianco) · TMB km 65.7
B&B rooms (affittacamere) above the Le Vieux Pommier restaurant or in a neighboring annexe, on the piazzale Monte…
HotelIT
1,224 m
Hotel Centrale
Courmayeur (via Mario Puchoz) · TMB km 65.8
A 3-star hotel run by the same family for three generations, in a quiet lane a few steps from the via Roma. Some rooms…
HotelIT
1,204 m
Hotel Courmayeur
Courmayeur (via Roma) · TMB km 65.8
A former stagecoach staging post converted into a hotel in the 1950s, right in the center on the via Roma, near the…
HotelIT
1,224 m
Hotel Cristallo
Courmayeur (via Roma) · TMB km 65.8
A 2-star hotel in the pedestrian zone of the center, about 500 m from the piazzale Monte Bianco where the shuttles to…
HotelIT
1,210 m
Hotel Edelweiss
Courmayeur (via Marconi) · TMB km 65.8
A 2-star hotel without restaurant in a quiet street parallel to the main thoroughfare, right in the center. About…
HotelIT
1,224 m
Hotel Croux
Courmayeur (center) · TMB km 65.9
A family-run 3-star hotel since 1966, completely renovated in a simple, contemporary style, a few steps from the via…
HotelIT
1,240 m
Hotel Crampon
Courmayeur (center) · TMB km 66
A hotel without restaurant opened in 1971 and still run by the Grivel – Di Addario family, quiet in the center thanks…
HotelIT
1,224 m
Pensione Venezia
Courmayeur (center) · TMB km 66
A family guesthouse that has kept its old character, right in the center of Courmayeur, behind the tourist office and…
B&BIToff route
1,340 m
Le Rêve
Plan Gorret (Villair) · TMB km 66.6
A quiet family B&B at Plan Gorret, on the eastern heights of Courmayeur, near the hamlet of Villair where path no. 42…
B&BIToff route
1,250 m
L'Abri des Amis
Entrelevie (La Saxe) · TMB km 66.8
A five-room guesthouse in a restored part of an old family property at Entrelevie, north of the center of Courmayeur…
B&BIToff route
1,250 m
Maison La Saxe
La Saxe · TMB km 66.8
A six-room guesthouse in the hamlet of La Saxe, a few minutes' walk from the pedestrian center of Courmayeur and not…
HotelIToff route
1,375 m
Hotel Funivia
La Palud · TMB km 71.1
A small 2-star B&B-style hotel in an old mountain house in the hamlet of La Palud, at the entrance to the Val Ferret…
Mountain hutIToff route
1,467 m
©SurroundingsRifugio Chapy Mont Blanc
Chapy d'Entrèves (entrance to the Val Ferret) · TMB km 71.4
A building constructed in the 1950s by the Giovane Montagna association of Turin and open to the public since 2025 as…