For my 61st birthday I want to take on a challenge. I plan to walk from Menton to Chamonix in the French Alps.

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Here is the intended route.

Since I ended my last long hike at the Mediterranean Sea, I thought I might carry on from there (albeit a bit "round the corner") and head for the starting point of my previous hike across all of Switzerland — Chamonix.

I plan to be posting daily updates to my Strava account. I hope you can look at them without needing to create your own account, if you don't want one.