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Mont Blanc, the “White Mountain”, is located on the French-Italian border in a range called the Graian Alps, between the regions of Aosta Valley, Italy, and Savoie and Haute-Savoie, France. Standing at 4810 m above sea level it is the highest mountain in the Alps and the highest in Europe west of Russia’s Caucasus peaks.

Once properly acclimatized on a nearby 4000+ m peak, these speed climbers will use the normal/Gouter route in an attempt to reach the 4810 m summit of Mont Blanc, and descend back down in just 24 hours! This challenge normally takes seasoned mountaineers 3 days to complete! Snowfall is high all through the year resulting in knee-high deep snow making the 2500 m of ascent tricky and very energy consuming. The dangers the team will face on this challenge are very real; each year sudden changes in weather conditions, crevasses, the infamous Grand Coulouir rockfall, serac/ice fall and narrow exposed summit approach ridges are responsible for countless mountain rescues and often death. Make no mistake this is a serious challenge!