The Col du Galibier is a mountain pass in the French Alps It connects Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne and Brian\u00e7on via the Col du T\u00e9l\u00e9graphe to the north and the Col du Lautaret to the south. The pass is closed in winter. The ridge that the Col du Galibier is part of forms a link between the Massif des Arves and Massif des Cerces.
\nContents<\/p>\n
1 Bicycles
\n1.1 Profile of the climb
\n1.1.1 From the north
\n1.1.2 From the south
\n1.2 Climbs during the Tour de France
\n2 Panorama
\n3 External links<\/p>\n
Bikes<\/p>\n
The mountain pass is best known for cycling stages in the Tour de France. There is also a monument on the Galibier in memory of Henri Desgrange, the first director of the Tour de France.<\/p>\n
Col du Galibier<\/p>\n
Because the Galibier can only be reached after the Col du T\u00e9l\u00e9graphe or the Col du Lautaret have been conquered, this makes this mountain pass one of the toughest Alpine passes in cycling history.
\nProfile of the ascent<\/p>\n
The top of the pass can be reached from both the north and south sides. From the south side, two roads run uphill, meeting a few kilometers before the summit.
\nFrom the north<\/p>\n
Profile of the ascent of the north face from Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne.<\/p>\n
From Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne, the length of the climb is 34.5 km with an average gradient of 6.6%. The ascent of the Col du T\u00e9l\u00e9graphe covers the first 12 km with an average gradient of 7%; after a slight descent to the village of Valloire, the actual ascent of the Col du Galibier begins. The average gradient of the Galibier is 6.9%, with especially the last kilometers being spicy with a percentage of about 8.5% (towards the summit even over 10%).<\/p>\n
Until 1976, the only transition to the other side of the pass consisted of a 370-m-long tunnel, which, however, was found to be in such poor condition that it was closed. A new road was built that goes all the way over the top of the pass and climbs an average of 10%. After renovation, the tunnel was reopened to vehicular traffic in 2002, with traffic lights regulating from which side traffic may use the tunnel. The tunnel is off limits to cyclists.
\nFrom the south<\/p>\n
From the south, one can climb the pass from Brian\u00e7on or from Bourg d’Oisans. From the southeast (Brian\u00e7on), the climb is 37 km long. The first 14 kilometers up to Mon\u00eatier are actually more false flat, with a gradient averaging 3%. The 14.5 km to the Col du Lautaret at 2058 m altitude rise a bit more, but it remains relatively modest at 4 to 5%. After that, from the monument to Henri Desgrange, there remain 8 tough kilometers, where the gradient is between 9 and 12%.<\/p>\n
One can also make the climb from the southwest, from Bourg d’Oisans (at the bottom of the Alpe d’Huez).
\nClimbs during the Tour de France<\/p>\n
On this mountain pass in 1936, Theo Middelkamp laid the foundation for the first Dutch stage victory in the Tour de France. The year before, Francisco Cepeda had fallen hard during the descent, leading to a skull base fracture.<\/p>\n
In 1998, Marco Pantani belittled Jan Ullrich. Italian Pantani flew away from Ullrich during hailstorms and low temperatures, losing 10 minutes at the summit.<\/p>\n
In 2011, the col was climbed on two consecutive days for the first time, and the first of those two climbs involved finishing at the summit of the Galibier for the first time in history. At the top of the Galibier, it was Andy Schleck who won overwhelmingly ahead of his brother Fr\u00e4nk and Cadel Evans.<\/p>\n
In 2013, the Galibier was climbed during the fifteenth stage of the Tour of Italy. Due to poor weather conditions, the stage was shortened to 4.2 kilometers below the summit of the col. The finish was at the monument to Marco Pantani. Italian Giovanni Visconti won the stage.<\/p>\n
In 2015, it was planned to climb the Galibier but it did not happen because a tunnel was about to collapse, so the route changed and went over the Croix de Fer.[1]
\nPassages in the Tour de France since 1947
\nYear Stage Category First above
\n2011 19 HC Andy Schleck
\n2011 18 HC Andy Schleck
\n2008 17 HC Stefan Schumacher
\n2007 9 HC Mauricio Soler
\n2006 16 HC Michael Rasmussen
\n2005 11 HC Aleksandr Vinokoerov
\n2003 8 HC Stefano Garzelli
\n2002 16 HC Santiago Botero
\n2000 15 HC Pascal Herv\u00e9
\n1999 9 HC Jos\u00e9 Luis Arrieta
\n1998 15 HC Marco Pantani
\n1993 10 HC Tony Rominger
\n1992 14 HC Franco Chioccioli
\n1989 17 HC Gert-Jan Theunisse
\n1987 21 HC Pedro Mu\u00f1oz
\n1986 18 HC Luis Herrera
\n1984 18 HC Francisco Rodr\u00edguez
\n1980 17 HC Johan De Muynck
\n1979 17 HC Lucien Van Impe
\n1974 11 1 Vicente L\u00f3pez Carril
\n1973 8 1 Luis Oca\u00f1a
\n1972 14a 1 Joop Zoetemelk
\n1969 10 1 Eddy Merckx
\n1967 10 1 Julio Jimenez
\n1966 16 1 Julio Jimenez
\n1964 8 1 Federico Bahamontes
\n1959 18 2 Charly Gaul
\n1957 10 1 Marcel Janssens
\n1955 8 1 Charly Gaul
\n1954 19 1 Federico Bahamontes
\n1952 11 1 Fausto Coppi
\n1948 14 2 Lucien Teisseire
\n1947 8 1 Fermo Camellini
\nPanorama<\/p>\n
Vanaf de top voert een wandelpad naar een uitzichtpunt op 2704 m. From here one can see the glaciers of the Barre des \u00c9crins and La Meije to the south, the peak of Rochebrune to the southeast, Mont Blanc to the northeast and finally the Grand Galibier (3229 m).
\nPanorama on the Col du Galibier
\nPanorama on the Col du Galibier<\/p>\n
Courtesy of Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Col du Galibier is a mountain pass in the French Alps It connects Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne and Brian\u00e7on via the Col du T\u00e9l\u00e9graphe to the north and the Col du Lautaret to the south. The pass is closed in winter. The ridge that the Col du Galibier is part of forms a link between the Massif des Arves and Massif des Cerces.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The mountain pass is best known for cycling stages in the Tour de France. There is also a monument on the Galibier in memory of Henri Desgrange, the first director of the Tour de France.<\/p>\n
Because the Galibier can only be reached after the Col du T\u00e9l\u00e9graphe or the Col du Lautaret have been conquered, this makes this mountain pass one of the toughest Alpine passes in cycling history.<\/p>\n
In 2013, the Galibier was climbed during the fifteenth stage of the Tour of Italy. Due to poor weather conditions, the stage was shortened to 4.2 kilometers below the summit of the col. The finish was at the monument to Marco Pantani. Italian Giovanni Visconti won the stage. Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":68,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[3501,3526,302],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12074","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-france-en","7":"product_cat-alps-en","8":"product_cat-road-markers","9":"tm-has-options","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"taxable","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n