🏔️ The biggest backpacking hike I’ve ever done.  
8 days • 166 km (103 mi) • 10 mountain passes • nearly 10,000 m (32,700 ft) elevation gain — and yes, we camped!  

Courmayeur 🇮🇹 → La Fouly 🇨🇭  
Trail: Tour du Mont Blanc (TMB)

Day 1: Courmayeur ➡️ La Fouly — Camping des Glaciers  
• Elevation gain: 1,416 m (4,646 ft)  
• Distance: 24.65 km (15.3 mi)  
• Backpack weight: 12–13 kg (26–29 lb)  
• Took bus to Lavachey  
• Heart rate almost always above 180 😅  
• Burned 5,000+ calories  
• Ate tiramisu (not great 🙃)  
• Met 3 Thai girls + 1 Japanese girl  
• 2 French guys hit on me (“you have good energy” 😂)  
• Crossed the Italy–Switzerland border 🇮🇹➡️🇨🇭  
• Slight rain toward the end 🌧️  

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💙 More about Kathryn  
🩵 Links: https://linktr.ee/kathrynyolo  
🩵 More adventure stories: Instagram: kathrynyolo  
🩵 My other (tech) channel: @kodeplay_untyped  

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