photo by: Francis
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This famous climb is always full of Dutchmen. More Tours de France have been won and lost here than anywhere else, and the Dutch riders always pull out all the stops here.
It is one of the very hardest climbs in the Alps, with very little scenic reward.
Usually ridden as a cul-de-sac, a one-way ticket, it is in fact possible to continue through the ski-station and carry on climbing to the higher slopes around the Col de Poutran, or turn past the airfield and over the Col de Sarennes, 1999m, to join the west side of the Lautaret. Alternatively by leaving the main road at Huez it is possible to take a minor road to arrive at Allemont at the foot of the Glandon/Croix de Fer.
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