Alpine Climbs — A Curated Guide The Alpine Crown

The Alpine Crown

The mountain decides; we merely record.

Somewhere above every alpine valley, a road stops climbing. The Crown gathers all of those summits into a single list — the passes that made the sport. To earn it is to have ridden every one, by bike and under your own effort. No prize waits at the top: only the climb, and a place in a book that never forgets who finished.

How it works

Ride by bike, then bring the ride to us — upload the file from any bike computer or app: Garmin, Wahoo, Komoot, or a whole Strava export at once. Every col you cross is read from the ride, never ticked by hand.

  • Alpine Crown — the whole list, every great col. Ride them all and your name joins the book.
  • One-day badge — a famous set, every climb of it inside a single day.
  • Hall of Fame — every finisher, in the order they arrived. First is first, forever.

The Rules

Rule #1.The bicycle is the only instrument.

Any bike you pedal counts — road, gravel, mountain bike — recorded on whatever device you like. Motors don't: an e-bike is a motorbike with good manners. And it must be a real outdoor ride; virtual rides earn virtual mountains, which we don't map.

Rule #2.You have to climb it — all of it.

The whole road to the summit, under your own legs. Touching the col from another road, or driving up, is not a crossing. Your ride shows what you did; we only read it.

Rule #3.The Crown counts tops, not sides.

Cross each col once, by whichever road you like — the Crown doesn't care which side you took, and there is no partial Crown. A pass's other sides are there to explore and to earn the one-day badges; each side logs on its own, but the summit is all the Crown asks.

Rule #4.A badge is a famous set, ridden in a day.

Beyond the Crown, a few celebrated sets earn a one-day badge: every climb in the set inside a single day — and you ride between the cols yourself, at a pace a cyclist could actually hold, so a car shuttle won't count. Today's three:

Trittico dello Stelvio
Trittico dello Stelvioits three sides
I Tre Giganti
I Tre GigantiStelvio · Gavia · Mortirolo
Les Cinglés du Mont Ventoux
Les Cinglés du Mont Ventouxall three faces

Rule #5.Completion, not speed.

One crossing verifies a climb for good — ride it again for love, there are no points to farm because there are no points. The Hall ranks who finished and in what order, never how fast; your climbing times and estimated power are shown to one person: you. The book of finishers is permanent: the first will always have been first.

Rule #6.Evidence, not surveillance.

We look at one thing per ride: which col you crossed, and when — never your whole route, never where you live, never your watts. You're in the Hall or on a public profile only if you choose to be, and you can leave the same way: disconnect and everything you shared is gone.

Honour is the only protocol — we verify because a finish must mean something, not because we suspect you; there is no surveillance here and there never will be. Questions of interpretation are settled by the Keepers, which is to say by the mountain: ride up and see.

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