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Set your alarm for well before dawn to climb Mont Ventoux. The heat rises faster than you in the summer months.
You won't be alone. From every direction, riders appear, lights blinking in the soft dawn light before the rising sun. It's a great time to be alive, don't be late.
Unlike other cycling climbs, the roads up the Ventoux don’t go anywhere other than down the other side. There is no through traffic, making it a haven for cyclists. The upper slopes are devoid of trees or vegetation, leaving a simultaneously desolate and breathtakingly beautiful moonscape.
Two of the three routes up Mont Ventoux, from the south and east, converge halfway up the mountain at Chalet-Reynard. From there, you enter a lunar landscape.
