The Grand Adventure

Nice to Geneva

We will embark on a nine-day trip through the French Alps, with seven days of flying, visiting take-offs as the weather permits. A van follows the whole way with camping gear, retrieval, and shuttle. We pick you up at Nice airport and drop you at Geneva airport, and everything in between depends on the weather.

Each day we look at the options and pick the closest, best place to fly. You fly as far as the conditions allow while the van follows with the gear. You land in the valleys, not on the peaks, and we find a place to sleep for the night. Your gear rides in the van, so this is not a vol-bivouac trip. Then we prepare for the next day.

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We start near Nice and work our way north toward Geneva, flying wherever the weather opens up. On a good run that can mean sites like Gourdon, Gréolières, or Col de Bleine in the south, and Saint-André-les-Alpes, Saint-Hilaire, Annecy, or Le Grand-Bornand further north. Which of them we actually fly depends entirely on the conditions that week, so treat these as the kind of places you might see, not a fixed route. We watch the weather day by day and pick the best option. You sleep in campsites or hotels along the way.

You arrive Saturday and settle in before we start flying on Sunday. Over the next seven days we travel and fly from site to site across the range. The trip ends at Geneva Airport on the following Sunday.

Seven flying days

€2,250

Explore the Alps

You fly most of the French Alps in one trip. You don't need to know the sites or read the day's weather for the whole range. We pick the best take-off for the conditions and run the logistics. You focus on flying.

It's an Adventure

One thing is fixed: you start at Nice and finish at Geneva. Everything between depends on the weather. Some nights are a campsite, some are a quiet field, some are a hotel when the forecast turns. You come to fly, and the rest is organized around that.

Live tracking. Always be found.

You fly with a LIVE1ONE tracker and FLARM. We see you the whole way, and other aircraft see you before you see them.

Decide together

You make the calls with us. Weather, the next take-off, the route, where we sleep, the debrief after each flight. You leave flying the Alps better than you arrived.

2026 – AUGUST

1st to 9th

 

To Do List

  • A small, packable tent
  • A compact sleeping bag and mat
  • SIV course
  • Fill out the registration form
Register

F.A.Q.

Transportation and the course fee. That covers your pick-up at Nice, the van and driver for the whole trip, retrieval, and the guiding.

What is not included is where you sleep and what you eat. You bring your own camping gear: a tent, a sleeping bag, a mat, everything you need for a night out. Keep it small and packable, because the van carries the whole group’s kit and space is limited.

Each day we talk it over as a group and choose what suits everyone, a campsite, a cheap room, or a hotel when the weather turns, and we settle on a price range together. Food works the same way. Some nights we cook together at the campsite, some nights we eat out. You decide as a group what fits the day and the budget.

If a cable car or ski lift is the best or only way up, that ride is not in the course fee.

The trip chases the weather, so we cannot book accommodation in advance. We decide day by day, as a group. Depending on the forecast and where the flying takes us, that is wild camping, a campsite, a room, or a hotel when heavy rain is coming overnight. We talk through the options and the price each evening and pick together.

We pick you up at Nice Airport. Book your arrival to land in Nice before midday on Saturday 1 August.

We drop you at Geneva Airport. Book your return from Geneva for the late afternoon of Sunday 9 August.

This trip moves. We do not sit on one hill. We fly a site, pack the van, and drive to the next one, sometimes three or four hours, then ride to the take-off. The days are long and they get tiring. Some nights you sleep rough.

So you need to be a pilot who flies on your own judgment. Nobody is watching your take-offs and landings for you. You might land out in the middle of a valley, on your own, and you need to read the valley, the wind, and the flows and decide for yourself whether it is safe to fly and where to put it down. If that is you, this is one of the best ways to fly the Alps. If you would want someone calling those decisions for you, this is not the trip yet.

Hiking is optional. The van follows the whole trip and takes you to the take-off whenever it can, and we use ski lifts where it makes sense. Your camping gear rides in the van, so you don’t carry it while you fly.

A nine-day trip from Nice, France to Geneva, Switzerland, seven of them flying. You fly whatever site in France the weather allows. You bring your own camping gear, packed small, and you sleep where the weather sends us.

One thing to know before you sign up:


There is a lot of van driving between sites, plenty of camping and wild camping, and long days. Come for that, not against it. The point is to fly as much of the Alps as the week allows, with the picking-up, the route, and the logistics handled, so all you do is fly.