The Col Collector – Been There, Done That

There are many climbs that I’ve put on the bucket list over the years and on this page you’ll see an overview of the ones I’ve been able to tick off during my various cycling the Alps adventures and a few other regions too..

Other than those, I discover (many, many) more, every time I plan a new expedition 🙂

In 2021, I cycled my 50th over 2000 m climb (Plan du Lac), my 50th “French” climb (Col du Pré) and ascended the Alpe d’Huez for the 10th time.

In 2023, by my calculations, the Luz-Saint-Sauveur side of the Tourmalet was my 150th climb, although I did the Campan side a week earlier.

During that Tour de France, I added no less than 25 Pyrenees cols/climbs to the list.

For more info on cols I have made more detailed information pages on myself, click on their names.

Other cols have a link to CyclingCols or ClimbFinder behind their names if available, or another alternative if I can find one, like Quaeldich (only in German).

You can find reports of my struggles on every respective climb by clicking the link next to the starting point / place of it.

This list only contains climbs with a summit of at least 1,000 meters and includes some in other areas than the Alps (incl. Dolomites and Pyrenees), like the Vosges, the Eifel, the Black Forest, and on Gran Canaria and Tenerife.

And although I’ve been on Mallorca, even a more famous climb like Sa Calobra, does not meet that ‘over 1,000 meters’ criterion.

In the French Vosges, I’ve seen – besides the ones listed and among others – the summit signs of Le Markstein (1,183) and Le Breitfirst (1,280), but I passed these while traversing the ridge between Le Grand Ballon and the Col du Platzerwasel.

That meant they were reached/passed relatively effortlessly and I do not qualify them as (separate) climbs.