French Alps GR5 Geneva to Nice


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The GR5 trail begins at Lake Geneva, goes south for over 400 miles through the French Alps, ending at Menton, a small town on the Mediterranean nearby Nice. We started from Evian-les-Bains, on Lake Geneva's south shore, and hiked two weeks to the alpine village of Landry. The next summer, we returned to Landry and devoted a month to complete the walk ending with the dramatic 6,000 ft descent to the sea.