The glittering mountain – Tour of Mount Ventoux

Touring bike · FR · 129 km · 3 stages

It’s known as ‘Mont-Chauve’ (bald mountain) in French, due to the absence of any vegetation on its summit. In English, it’s known as ‘Mountain of the Moon’ for the same reason. It’s wrongly claimed that the name of Mount Ventoux, in the Provence region of southern France, comes from the area’s stron

by Vincent Reboul