Vanoise

Rother walking guides are pocket-sized, in full colour and include 50 walks, varying from day-long hikes, mountain and valley walks, some easy some more demanding. Each walk has accompanying mapping, usually 1:50 000 and colour photos capture the 'feel' of each of the countries.

This Rother walking guide offers over 50 varied walks around the Vanoise massif. The area surrounded by the valleys of the Is?re and the Arc at the southernmost tip of Savoy, which shares a border with Italy in the southeast, is divided into the Tarentaise in the north and the Maurienne in the south.

Together with the Olympia village of Albertville, names like Les Trois Vall?es, Les Arcs and Val d'Is?re are well known, especially to winter sports fans. However, where exactly these places lie, is only known to a few. But it's just because the French alpine regions - apart from the Mont Blanc mountains - are perceived as almost exotic, it is all the more interesting to go and explore the area.

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