The top class up- and downhill ride

Crossing the highest mountain passes of the Alps in just 5 days, you and your team will experience at least 10 of the most spectacular mountain and valley tracks. 1.500 km high alpine adventure through 5 countries on the steepest courses. The European Mountain Summit gives you the chance to experience a real adventure in a short time.

You and your team will experience the stark contrasts of the Alps. Alongside icy mountain tops and through sunny valleys, the European Mountain Summit will lead you directly into the fantastic mountain world of the Alps to the finish in South of France.

The West Edition of the European Mountain Summit starts in Upper Bavaria, Germany, and from there plunges straight into the grand alpine scenery of Europe. Within the first few kilometres, you can already feel what this rally is all about: winding mountain roads, dramatic shifts in landscape, striking changes in elevation, and that unmistakable sense of driving deeper and deeper into the heart of the Alps.

From Germany, the route first leads through Austria and into one of the most iconic high-alpine regions in the Alps around the Großglockner. Sweeping views, dramatic altitude changes and true high-mountain scenery set the tone for the stages ahead right from the start. From there, the rally continues into South Tyrol and the Dolomites, where the landscape changes once again: rugged rock formations, dramatic peaks, narrow valleys and an alpine backdrop that ranks among the most impressive anywhere in Europe. Between striking mountain panoramas, famous winter sports destinations and sun-drenched mountain regions, the rally quickly takes on a character that feels unmistakably alpine.

The route then continues into Lombardy, the Engadin and Graubünden — an alpine world of soaring mountains, crystal-clear lakes, elegant mountain towns and dramatic transitions between Italy and Switzerland. The scenery keeps shifting its mood: raw and rocky in one moment, wide and almost refined in the next, then remote and deeply untouched again. It is exactly this constant change that gives the Mountain Summit West Edition its particular appeal.

At the halfway point, the route opens out towards the great northern Italian lake districts and Piedmont. After the intensity of the early high-mountain stages, this part of the rally almost feels like a change of rhythm: more Mediterranean in mood, softer in its contours, with elegant lakeside towns and that distinctive mix of mountains, water and Italian lifestyle. It is here that the rally reaches its first major shared highlight with the halfway celebration.

After that, the route tightens again. From Piedmont, it pushes back into the western arc of the Alps, into a region known for especially wild, untouched and demanding mountain landscapes. The mountains often feel rougher here, the higher elevations more remote, and the stages even more intense. Between historic Alpine valleys, spectacular mountain scenery and lonely high-altitude terrain, the rally once again reveals its uncompromising high-mountain character.

For the finale, the West Edition moves onto the grand stage of the French Alps. Everything builds once more: wide-open panoramas, barren heights, legendary mountain regions, and that special sense of gradually leaving the world of peaks behind as you work your way south. The landscape becomes more open, the light grows warmer, and with every kilometre the contrast of the finale becomes more pronounced.

Because at the end, perhaps the most beautiful shift in scenery on the entire route is still to come: from the high mountains, the road drops down towards the Côte d’Azur. After days of peaks, hairpins and altitude, the Mediterranean suddenly opens up before you. The rally ends where alpine drama meets Mediterranean ease — on the French Riviera, close to Monte Carlo, Nice and Cannes — with the feeling of having completed one of the most intense Alpine crossings in Europe in just five days.