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Otherwise long processions to high altitude sanctuaries are a favourite midsummer activity. Popular local events with a legendary or religious origin, they attract huge crowds, often emigrants who return every year for the occasion. Worthy of mention are the Notre Dame des Neiges procession to Lago Miserin (5 August), the mammoth San Besso celebrations at Campiglia Soana (19 August) and ‘Lo Patron de Sen Grat’ (5 September), which are all mentioned in the descriptions of the individual walks.

Further suggestions

Walkers concluding the Alta Via 2 at Courmayeur will doubtless be extremely fit (if not utterly exhausted) and may like to proceed around the Mont Blanc massif on the popular TMB – see Kev Reynolds' Tour of Mont Blanc (Cicerone, 2007).

The mammoth Grande Traversata delle Alpi (GTA), the 46-day hike across Piemonte, also touches the Gran Paradiso and can be picked up in Valle dell'Orco or Soana – see Through the Italian Alps by Gillian Price (Cicerone, 2005).

Leading up to Col Lauson (AV2 stage 5)