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Tour du Mont Blanc is a 170 km trail around Mont Blanc and surrounding mountains, crossing from France to Italy and then Switzerland before returning to France.

In length it measures 600 or 700 French miles from north to south, from the capes Cabo blanc, Cabo S.

I clip the end off of a Montc Blanc ink cartridge to make it fit into the G2 chamber.

I thought of something similar when I clicked the Mont Blanc pencil and found out it was 500 + USD.

Maybe its like some carte blanc, where each reader sees part of themselves in the words, and they strike some inner chord that demands response.

You cannot carte blanc ignore macros without some serious explanation.

In 2 months, I go to Mont Blanc on skis, and I'll propose to my girlfriend up there if we both make it.

Mont Blanc (4,810 m or 15,781 ft), lying on the border between France and Italy in the Graian Alps, is seen by some to be the highest mountain in Europe.

> I don't understand why the public should be expected to subsidize a for-profit industry and not have carte blanc to regulate.

IF performance measurement takes hold -- which it shouldn't -- I don't understand why the public should be expected to subsidize a for-profit industry and not have carte blanc to regulate.

One example - 2 weekends ago, I took my girlfriend to Mont Blanc with guide, on skis, and on top, after gruelling march on skis, I surprised her proposed marriage.

He pretty much disapproves of it all, with quite good reasons (text is in French): > Me trouvant avec mes deux clients au sommet du Mt Blanc ce 13 septembre, je ne peut que vous faire part de notre consternation devant la débauche de bruit et d'agitation ridicule qui polluait l'endroit ce jour-là.

Later edit: Before people start down-voting me, I found this comment of a guy who was among the "other" people on the top of Mont Blanc (meaning he was not invited to the jacuzzi party).

The article starts with the question: > "Would the entire roll be stretched out twenty feet just to doublecheck the ingredients necessary for a dish of blanc manger?" To which I can only think "Of course they didn't do that.

If you are near the top of Mont Blanc, there's no way to go up far in small steps.

Had this article posted anywhere else, given Steve Blanc's air, it would have started defining new rules.

The first time I drank with a multi millionaire we were having a jammy value buy called Seven Deadly Zins and Monkey Bay Sauvignon Blanc.