Cool off: that’s how long you travel from Zoetermeer to Mont Blanc

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Are you fed up with the heat in Zoetermeer? Then it’s time to cool down. Of course you can just get through the heat in our city, but you can also really look up the cold!

And where better to cool off than on the top of Europe’s highest mountain, Mont Blanc? Nice with your feet in the snow, the cool mountain air blowing past your cheeks while you drink a refreshing sip of melting glacier water… Now that’s cooling down!

Distance to Mont Blanc

But how long will it take you from Zoetermeer to cool down your overheated body on the 4,808 meter high Franco-Italian mountain? Since you cannot reach the top by car, we first measure the distance between Zoetermeer and Chamonix at the foot of Mont Blanc. What seems? That distance is 1,011 kilometers. By car it takes you 10 hours and 46 minutes.

The top of Mont Blanc is located on the border between France and Italy. The Italian name is therefore Monte Bianco, which means ‘white mountain’, just like in French. Mont Blanc is 4,807.81 meters high (September 2021), including the snow on the top. Without that snow, an altitude of 4,792 meters was determined in 2004. (source: vrt.be)

Did you know that the top of Mont Blanc can be found in the Netherlands? In 1787, HB de Saussure chopped off the top of the mountain. In 1802 this piece of rock was purchased by Martinus van Marum for the Teylers Museum in Haarlem. The top can still be admired there. (source: Teyler’s Museum)

To the top

To cool off at the top of Mont Blanc you have to make some effort, because from Chamonix you can walk to the highest point. That route is 25.7 kilometers and it takes an experienced mountaineer, according to Google Maps, about eight and a half hours. You have to climb 3,813 meters, because Chamonix is ​​located at an altitude of 995 meters. There is a good chance that you will arrive overheated at the top, but then you can cool off in the coolest place in Europe. Check out that view!

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View from the top of Mont Blanc | Photo: Google Maps

Does all this sound a bit too crazy to you? Quite right, an ice cream at one of the ice cream parlors in Zoetermeer will probably also cool you off.”

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