Col du Galibier (2,642 m) is a mountain pass in the French Alps about 2 hours from Grenoble. This remote summit is the highest point of the Tour de France and it attracts many ambitious cyclists who want to challenge their skills.Its cycling history begins at the dawn of the first great stage races, in 1911, when the pioneers of the Tour faced it with bicycles weighing up to 15 kilos and without gears, riding along roads that were little more than mule tracks, unpaved and ruined.
The first ever to pass on its top were Emile Georget, Paul Duboc and Gustave Garrigou, the only ones not to dismount their bikes.
Since then, the route of the road has changed in several points and the asphalt has made it smooth and flowing under the wheels of light and sophisticated bicycles, but the mythical halo of this mountain has remained intact, enlivened by equally legendary enterprises.
