Col du Galibier
One of the highest passes of the Tour de France (2,642 m): 18 km from Valloire, gentle at first and harder in the final kilometres, in thin air.
- Start: Valloire
- Length: 18.1 km
- Elevation gain: 1,245 m
- Average gradient: 6.9%
- Max gradient: 10.1%
- The Tour de France first crossed the Galibier in 1911.
- A monument to Henri Desgrange, the Tour's founder, stands by the south portal of the tunnel.
- The first summit finish was in 2011; Andy Schleck won after a very long solo attack.
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