@Melissa – it changes so quickly so please check with the embassy for France, Italy and Switzerland to ensure that you’re able to do the tour as they’ll have the most accurate and up-to-date information. Thank you.

Also, I hold a British passport but am resident in Greece and hold a biometric card. With this, do I have the same freedom to travel as other eu citizens?

@Amy Absolutely, we work with a local company to offer self-guided tours in which you can choose to stay at either refuges or in villages and have the option to have your bags carried every day. After doing everything myself, I was inspired to create a self-guided hiking tour for this reason since I also prefer hiking privately vs in a group. You can find all the details here: https://monkeysandmountains.com/tour-du-mont-blanc-self-guided/

Would there be a way to do most of this via day hikes and stay in villages along the way if we don’t want to carry all of our things and stay in refuges? Is there a service that would carry our bags from town to town? I realize that we could perhaps do a tour but we would rather hike by ourselves at our own pace if possible. Thanks.

Hi Joshua, normally all you need is a sleeping bag liner which is very thin, but check with the individual huts that you’ll be staying at as now due to COVID, some of them are no longer providing blankets so you do need a sleeping bag, but a thin lightweight one will be fine. Enjoy your trip.

First of all, thank you very much for such a detailed TMB description and answers in the comments! I believe they are already very useful to me!

But I’m now looking for the information about what type of sleeping bag I will need to stay in the refuges along TMB?

Are they usually warm enough to have a blanket sleeping bag or should I use real touristic one? I’m planning to do my trip in the middle of August.

@Amie most people take a lift from Chamonix and then start from there. Enjoy!