Alone Through the Alps: from Lake Geneva to Nice on the GR5

GR is an abbreviation of the French words grande randonnée, which together mean a hike of a grand nature. Antti Rantanen, an experienced and enthusiastic long-distance hiker from Finland, solo hiked one of the most famous trails of the vast GR network: the GR number five, otherwise known as the Grand Traverse of the Alps.

Alone Through the Alps is a detailed and vivid travelogue of an unforgettable adventure across the French Alps, through deep and lush valleys, over high and snow-covered mountain passes—all the way from the shores of Lake Geneva to the sun-drenched Mediterranean coast of Nice.

This book will take the reader on a one month, six hundred kilometre long hike and camping trip to the summery slopes of the Alps where, due to a late spring, snow patches still lingered on the highest cols.