Alpe d'Huez
The Tour de France's most famous climb: 13.8 km at about 8% through 21 numbered hairpins from Le Bourg-d'Oisans to the ski resort. The first kilometres are the hardest.
- Start: Le Bourg-d'Oisans
- Length: 13.8 km
- Elevation gain: 1,120 m
- Average gradient: 8.1%
- Max gradient: 13%
- The Tour's first finish at Alpe d'Huez was in 1952, won by Fausto Coppi.
- Each of the 21 hairpins carries a plaque with the names of stage winners.
- It is nicknamed the 'Dutch mountain', after the many Dutch winners of its early finishes.
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