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Aiguilles d'Arves Tour
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Description
Touring the Aiguilles d'Arves is an adventure you won't soon forget! This alpine hike, for experienced hikers only, will plunge you into a sumptuous setting of mountain pastures, mineral peaks and welcoming refuges.
The Tour des Aiguilles d'Arves, a hiking trail between Savoie and Hautes-Alpes, takes you on a wilderness adventure, immersing you in a succession of high-altitude passes, panoramic ridges and flower-filled mountain pastures grazed by numerous herds of cattle, goats and sheep.
With no particular technical difficulties, apart from a few steep slopes on graded paths, and a few torrent crossings with varying degrees of water depending on the season and the previous day's weather, this itinerary does require good physical condition, experience of long-distance hiking and appropriate personal equipment.
This itinerary combines history and trade, wars and peddlers, between the former State of Savoy and the Kingdom of France. Cross the border on these ancient paths steeped in history, on these slopes and ridges!
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Additional information
Updated by
Office de tourisme Intercommunal Cœur de Maurienne - 26/11/2025
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Open period
Open every day.
Subject to favorable weather.
Contact
Phone : 04 79 59 30 48
Topo guides and map references
Topo guides references :
The Tour des Aiguilles d'Arves IGN map is available from our office during opening hours for €20.
Map references :
IGN map no. 3435ETR: Valloire - Aiguilles d'Arves/Col du Galibier
Tricky passages
Long stages with significant differences in altitude, itinerary sometimes off-piste, crossing of two alpine passes, presence of exposed passages: balcony passage over rocky bars, handrails, rocky ridges, possible presence of névés.
Guidebook with maps/step-by-step
1/ DAY 1: Albiez-le-Jeune -> Chalet d'la Croë / Duration: 6h15 / Difference in altitude: + 878 m / - 174 m / Distance: 14.8 km
2/ DAY 2: Chalet d'la Croë -> Chalet du Perron / Duration: 4h / Difference in altitude: + 536 m / - 463 m / Distance: 8.3 km
3/ DAY 3: Chalet du Perron -> Refuge du Pic du mas de la Grave / Time: 7h30 / Difference in altitude: + 1087 m / - 1290 m / Distance: 12.7 km
4/ DAY 4: Refuge du Pic du mas de la Grave -> Refuge du Goléon / Duration: 7h / Difference in altitude: + 1048 m / - 525 m / Distance: 15.2 km
5/ DAY 5: Refuge du Goléon -> Refuge des Aiguilles d'Arves / Duration: 7h50 / Difference in altitude: + 993 m / - 1217m / Distance: 15.5 km
6/ DAY 6: Refuge des Aiguilles d'Arves -> Albanne / Time: 7h45 / Difference in altitude: + 649 m/ - 1279 m / Distance: 17.4 km
7/ DAY 7: Albanne -> Albiez-Le-Jeune / Duration: 6h40 / Difference in altitude: + 825 / - 1078 / Distance: 13.2 km
Animals
Yes. Pets allowed on leash only.
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