Col de l'Iseran

Col de l'Iseran
Elevation		2,764 m (9,068 ft)
Traversed by	D 902 road
Location	Savoie, France
Range	Graian Alps
Coordinates	45°25′1″N 07°01′51″E / 45.41694°N 7.03083°E / 45.41694; 7.03083
Col de l'Iseran Location of Col de l'Iseran

Col de l'Iseran (el. 2,764 metres (9,068 ft)) is a

The pass is part of the Route des Grandes Alpes. It connects the valley of the Isère (Tarentaise) and the valley of the Arc River (Maurienne) between Val-d'Isère in the north and Bonneval-sur-Arc in the south.

On the northern side is the popular Tignes – Val d'Isère ski resort. The pass is only accessible by road during the summer months. In the winter it can only be accessed by a series of pistes and ski lifts.

The Col is also accessible by off-road mountain paths and is the highest point both of the Alpine GR 5, a long-distance trail from Lake Geneva to Nice, and of the similar Grande Traversée des Alpes. The steep descent to the south, notable for its waterfalls, enters the Vanoise National Park here.

From the north the road goes up and down through short tunnels and avalanche galleries past the Lac du Chevril near Tignes. Starting from Bourg-Saint-Maurice, the climb to Col de l'Iseran is 48 km (30 mi). Over this distance, the road (D 902) ascends 1,955 m (6,414 ft), at an average grade of 4.1%. The last 15 km (9 mi) starts at Val-d'Isère and climbs 895 m (2,936 ft) at a consistent average of 6%.^{[citation needed]}

From the south, the climb starts at

On both sides of the Col de l'Iseran, mountain pass cycling milestones mark the distance to the summit, the current altitude, and the average slope in the following kilometre.

Panorama of the Col de l'Iseran

The Col d'Iseran was first used in the

Col de l'Iseran was crossed in 2007 in stage 9, which started from Val-d'Isère and went 159.5 km (99 mi) to Briançon on 17 July.^[4] The Tour crossed the climb once again in the 2019 edition, in Stage 19 to Tignes.^[5] However, due to adverse weather conditions on the ascent to Tignes, the stage was truncated with times for the general classification being taken at the summit of the Col de l'Iseran.^[6]

Year	Stage	Category	Start	Finish	Leader at the summit
2019	19	HC, SHD	Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne	Tignes Col de l'Iseran[6]	Egan Bernal (COL)
2007	9	HC	Val-d'Isère	Briançon	Yaroslav Popovych (UKR)
1992	13	HC	Saint-Gervais	Sestriere	Claudio Chiappucci (ITA)
1963	16	1	Grenoble	Val-d'Isère	Fernando Manzaneque (ESP)
1959	18	1	Le Lautaret	Saint-Vincent	Adolf Christian (AUT)
1949	17	1	Briançon	Aosta	Giuseppe Tacca (FRA)
1939	16b	ITT	Bonneval	Bourg-Saint-Maurice	Sylvère Maes (BEL)
1938	15		Briançon	Aix-les-Bains	Félicien Vervaecke (BEL)