Alpine Break

I have just come up with a great possibility for one of the segments Top Gear do where they race a car by one route against someone skiing/climbing/riding/running by another route. We often pop over to Italy for ice cream and coffee because it is much nicer than the stuff you get here in France. [...]

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The craggy summit of Tete de Gaulent (2867m) can easily be seen from the front of our house and I have been keen to make my way up it for some time now. I managed to tempt David Monteith, an Alpine Club member, who was staying with us to come along. I wasn’t exactly sure [...]

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