Lacets de Montvernier

This was the final climb of today’s stage before the finish and a first in Tour history.

In just 3.4 kilometers there are 18 hairpins bends, with a 180° switchback every 150m on a narrow road that can just accomodate one lane of cars.

“You don’t ever stop turning,”  Thierry Gouvenou, Tour course director, described it.