GR 5, as a poster.
590 km · +34,700 m · 39 days
The Alpine GR 5, the Grande Traversée des Alpes, links Lake Geneva to Nice through the Chablais, the Mont Blanc country, the Vanoise, the Queyras, the Ubaye and the Mercantour: 39 stages from Saint-Gingolph to Nice, walked from mid-June to mid-September, once the passes are clear of snow. The poster draws the whole crossing or one massif, and marks every stage end.
From Saint-Gingolph to Nice. Walked in 39 days, from one stage end to the next.
From €40 · delivery from €4.90 · with you within 8 working days in France · free A4 PDF
The classic stages
The stage ends, in walking order: each one is a dot on the poster.
- Stage 1Saint-Gingolph → Chalets de Bise
- Stage 2Chalets de Bise → Refuge de Trébentaz
- Stage 3Refuge de Trébentaz → Refuge de Chésery
- Stage 4Refuge de Chésery → Refuge de la Golèse
- Stage 5Refuge de la Golèse → Salvagny
- Stage 6Salvagny → Refuge de Moëde Anterne
- Stage 7Refuge de Moëde Anterne → Les Houches
- Stage 8Les Houches → Refuge du Fioux
- Stage 9Refuge du Fioux → Refuge de Nant Borrant
- Stage 10Refuge de Nant Borrant → Refuge du Plan de la Lai
- Stage 11Refuge du Plan de la Lai → Refuge de la Balme
- Stage 12Refuge de la Balme → Peisey-Nancroix
- Stage 13Peisey-Nancroix → Refuge du Col du Palet
- Stage 14Refuge du Col du Palet → Val-d’Isère
- Stage 15Val-d’Isère → Bonneval-sur-Arc
- Stage 16Bonneval-sur-Arc → Refuge de Vallonbrun
- Stage 17Refuge de Vallonbrun → Refuge du Plan du Lac
- Stage 18Refuge du Plan du Lac → Refuge de l’Arpont
- Stage 19Refuge de l’Arpont → Refuge de Plan Sec
- Stage 20Refuge de Plan Sec → Modane
- Stage 21Modane → Refuge du Thabor
- Stage 22Refuge du Thabor → Plampinet
- Stage 23Plampinet → Montgenèvre
- Stage 24Montgenèvre → Briançon
- Stage 25Briançon → Brunissard
- Stage 26Brunissard → Château-Ville-Vieille
- Stage 27Château-Ville-Vieille → Ceillac
- Stage 28Ceillac → Maljasset
- Stage 29Maljasset → Fouillouse
- Stage 30Fouillouse → Larche
- Stage 31Larche → Bousiéyas
- Stage 32Bousiéyas → Saint-Étienne-de-Tinée
- Stage 33Saint-Étienne-de-Tinée → Roya
- Stage 34Roya → Refuge de Longon
- Stage 35Refuge de Longon → Saint-Sauveur-sur-Tinée
- Stage 36Saint-Sauveur-sur-Tinée → Saint-Dalmas-de-Valdeblore
- Stage 37Saint-Dalmas-de-Valdeblore → Utelle
- Stage 38Utelle → Levens
- Stage 39Levens → Nice
Map My Life is not affiliated with the managers of this trail. Its name refers to its route; the poster is drawn by us from the route, on an OpenStreetMap base.
Sections
The parts people also walk on their own.
- ChablaisSaint-Gingolph → Salvagny · 5 days
- Pays du Mont-BlancSalvagny → Refuge de Nant Borrant · 4 days
- Beaufortain et TarentaiseRefuge de Nant Borrant → Peisey-Nancroix · 3 days
- VanoisePeisey-Nancroix → Modane · 8 days
- BriançonnaisModane → Briançon · 4 days
- QueyrasBriançon → Ceillac · 3 days
- UbayeCeillac → Larche · 3 days
- MercantourLarche → Saint-Dalmas-de-Valdeblore · 6 days
- Arrière-pays niçoisSaint-Dalmas-de-Valdeblore → Nice · 3 days
- A4: €40 · 30 × 40: €50 · 50 × 70: €60
- Framed
- A4: €75 · 30 × 40: €85
- Delivery
- Delivery €4.90 for prints, €7.90 with a frame, once per order, VAT included.
What you get.
200 gsm matt paper
A thick paper with no glare: your map reads as well up close as from across the room.
Printed at up to 300 dpi
The print file keeps every pass and every street sharp. What you see in the preview is what gets printed.
Ready to hang
A smooth black, smooth white or solid natural pine frame, under acrylic glass: it goes on the wall as soon as the parcel is open.
Ships within 4 working days
With you within 8 working days in mainland France, 8 to 16 elsewhere in Europe, 8 to 15 in the rest of the world and 15 to 27 in the French overseas territories.
Delivery from €4.90
Delivery €4.90 for prints, €7.90 with a frame, once per order. We deliver to the whole European Union, Monaco, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Singapore, La Réunion, Guadeloupe and Martinique.
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Before you order.
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What does it look like printed?
The preview is the poster: same drawing, same layout, shown at 30 × 40 (at A4 and 50 × 70, a little more or a little less paper at the top and bottom). The print file is made at up to 300 dpi, on 200 gsm matt paper. On a phone, a 50 × 70 comes down to around 175 dpi: for that size, order from a computer instead. A hike can also be turned to landscape: the map takes the whole width, the same shape at every size.
What about the free PDF?
It’s your poster in A4, to print at home, with our small logo at the foot of the page. Leave your e-mail and we’ll send you the link, valid for 30 days. For personal use: print it, share it, don’t sell it.
How much is delivery, and how long does it take?
€4.90 for prints, €7.90 as soon as there’s a framed print, €15.90 to La Réunion, the French Antilles and Iceland, once per order, however many posters. Ships within 4 working days, delivered within 8 working days in mainland France, 8 to 16 elsewhere in Europe, 8 to 15 in the rest of the world and 15 to 27 in the French overseas territories.
Can I order several posters?
Yes: add them to your basket one by one, up to 10, and pay for them all at once. They all go to the same address, and delivery is paid once. A gift card is entered in the basket.
Where do you deliver?
To the whole European Union, Monaco, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Singapore, La Réunion, Guadeloupe and Martinique. Anywhere else, French Guiana, Mayotte and New Caledonia included, write to us before you order: we’ll look at shipping with you. In La Réunion, the French Antilles, Japan, Iceland and the Canary Islands, local taxes may be asked on delivery.
It’s a gift, and I don’t know their time.
Give a gift card: it arrives by e-mail in a minute, and they make their poster with their race, their name and their time.
What happens to my GPS track?
Your file stays in your browser: the poster is drawn on your device. For a print, only the poster’s final file is sent to us. If you ask for the free PDF or make a custom request, we keep the simplified shape of your route for 30 days, with no times and no health data, so you can get the same poster back. For the free PDF, your e-mail address and the poster’s settings (race, style, text, without the route) are then kept for 3 years.