Col des Gets | 1163 METER | Taninges Morzine

The Col des Gets is part of the famous French Alpine route ‘Route des Grandes Alpes’. This rather inconspicuous Alpine pass is the northernmost and therefore the first or last Alpine pass on the famous route from the Côte d'Azur, Menton to Lake Geneva, Thono-les-Bains. It has an altitude of 1163 metres and connects the French municipalities of Taninges and Morzine.
 

It is one of the maximum (depending on how you count) 17 Alpine passes that make up the ‘Route des Grandes Alpes’. These are:

Col des Gets (1163 m), Col de la Colombière (1613 m), Col des Aravis (1487 m), Col des Saisies (1650 m), Cormet de Roselend (1967 m), Col de l'Iseran (2764 m), Col du Télégraphe (1566 m), Col du Galibier (2642 m), Col du Lautaret (2058 m), Col d'Izoard (2360 m), Col de Vars (2109 m), Col de la Cayolle (2326 m), Col de Valberg (1672 m), Col de la Couillole (1678 m), Col Saint Martin (1500 m), Col de Turini (1607 m), Col de Castillon (706 m)