Famous climbs of the Tour de France
Many of the Tour de France's most famous and repeatedly used climbs, from the French Alps and Pyrenees, are included.
It's challenging to find any climb that has yet to feature in the Tour de France at one time or another. Yet many are used year after year for all sorts of different reasons.
The Col du Tourmalet is one of them. The 1910 edition of the Tour de France took on the Tourmalet. The first high mountain pass to be included. It's been going up ever since, sometimes twice. It is the most visited of all the mountain passes of the Tour. This has much to do with its location in the middle of the Pyrenees. It's difficult not to go up the Tourmalet, as there isn't any way around it.
