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Cormet de Roselend
Mountain pass in Savoie, France From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cormet de Roselend (el. 1967 m.) is a high mountain pass in the Alps in the department of Savoie in France.
It connects Beaufort in the Beaufortain valley and Bourg-Saint-Maurice in the Tarentaise Valley. On the west side of the pass lies the Lac de Roselend, a reservoir that can be reached by the Col de Méraillet or the Col du Pré.
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Details of climb
On the north-western side, starting from Beaufort, the climb is 20.3 km long. Over this distance, the climb is 1227 m. (an average percentage of 6.0%), with the steepest sections at 9.06%.[1]
From Bourg-Saint-Maurice to the south-east, the Cormet de Roselend is 19.3 km long. Over this distance, the climb is 1154 m. (an average percentage of 6.0%), with the steepest sections at 8.9%.[2]
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Appearances in Tour de France
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The pass was first included in the Tour de France in 1979 and has since featured 16 times, most recently in stage 19 of the 2025 Tour de France.[3]
In the 1996 Tour de France, just before the summit on the Cormet de Roselend, Frenchman Stéphane Heulot cracked, lost the Maillot Jaune and bowed out of the race.[5] It was also on the Cormet de Roselend that Johan Bruyneel overshot a fast left-hand bend and disappeared over the edge, as he descended towards Bourg-St-Maurice. Spectators feared the worst but Bruyneel managed to climb back up, apparently unscathed.[6]
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