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Famous roadPyrenees (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), France

Col d'Aubisque & Col du Soulor

Mountain pass — 1,709 m, cliff-edge balcony road

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Days recorded
52Grand Tour days on this road
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8stages we hold the route for
Years covered
1910–2023first to most recent
Sides raced
2directions in the record

Part of the original 1910 'circle of death'. The balcony road of the Cirque du Litor, carved into the cliff between the Aubisque and the Soulor, is one of the most spectacular in the Pyrenees.

The climb

One trace for the whole road, up one side and down the other. No separate profile per side is recorded.

The record

Raced here

8 of 52 open on the map

Every Grand Tour day recorded on this road, newest first. The ones we hold the route for open on the map with that stage selected; the rest are the archive’s own account, most of them from before route data existed.

  1. 2023

    Vuelta a España · Stage 13

    Won by Jonas Vingegaard

    Laruns (west)

  2. 2022

    Tour de France · Stage 18

    Won by Jonas Vingegaard

    Laruns (west)

  3. 2018

    Tour de France · Stage 19

    Won by Primož Roglič

    Col du Soulor / Argelès-Gazost (east)

  4. 2016

    Vuelta a España · Stage 14

    Won by Robert Gesink

    Laruns (west)

  5. 2012

    Tour de France · Stage 16

    Won by Thomas Voeckler

    Laruns (west)

  6. 2011

    Tour de France · Stage 13

    Won by Thor Hushovd

    Laruns (west)

  7. 2010

    Tour de France · Stage 16

    Won by Pierrick Fédrigo

    Col du Soulor / Argelès-Gazost (east)

  8. 2007

    Tour de France · Stage 16

    Won by Michael Rasmussen

    Laruns (west)

    Rasmussen won the summit finish in yellow — and was thrown out of the race by his own team that night for lying about his whereabouts before the Tour, handing the lead to Alberto Contador.

  9. 2005

    Stage 16 · first to the top: Cadel Evans (AUS)

  10. 2002

    Stage 11 · first to the top: Laurent Jalabert (FRA)

  11. 2000

    Stage 10 · first to the top: Javier Otxoa (ESP)

  12. 1999

    Stage 16 · first to the top: Alberto Elli (ITA)

  13. 1998

    Stage 10 · first to the top: Cédric Vasseur (FRA)

  14. 1996

    Stage 17 · first to the top: Neil Stephens (AUS)

  15. 1995

    Stage 16 · first to the top: Stage neutralised

  16. 1993

    Stage 17 · first to the top: Claudio Chiappucci (ITA)

  17. 1991

    Stage 13 · first to the top: Guido Winterberg (SUI)

  18. 1990

    Stage 17 · first to the top: Óscar Vargas (COL)

  19. 1989

    Stage 9 · first to the top: Miguel Induráin (ESP)

  20. 1987

    Stage 14 · first to the top: Thierry Claveyrolat (FRA)

  21. 1985

    Stage 18b · first to the top: Reynel Montoya (COL)

  22. 1983

    Stage 10 · first to the top: Lucien Van Impe (BEL)

  23. 1982

    Stage 12 · first to the top: Beat Breu (SUI)

  24. 1980

    Stage 13 · first to the top: Maurice Le Guilloux (FRA)

  25. 1977

    Stage 2 · first to the top: Hennie Kuiper (NED)

  26. 1976

    Stage 15 · first to the top: Wladimiro Panizza (ITA)

  27. 1972

    Stage 7 · first to the top: Wilfried David (BEL)

  28. 1971

    Stage 16 · first to the top: Bernard Labourdette (FRA)

  29. 1970

    Stage 19 · first to the top: Raymond Delisle (FRA)

  30. 1969

    Stage 17 · first to the top: Eddy Merckx (BEL)

  31. 1968

    Stage 12 · first to the top: Julio Jiménez (ESP)

  32. 1967

    Stage 17 · first to the top: Jean-Claude Theillière (FRA)

  33. 1966

    Stage 10 · first to the top: Tommaso De Pra (ITA)

  34. 1965

    Stage 9 · first to the top: Julio Jiménez (ESP)

  35. 1964

    Stage 16 · first to the top: Federico Bahamontes (ESP)

  36. 1963

    Stage 10 · first to the top: Federico Bahamontes (ESP)

  37. 1961

    Stage 17 · first to the top: Eddy Pauwels (BEL)

  38. 1960

    Stage 10 · first to the top: Graziano Battistini (ITA)

  39. 1958

    Stage 13 · first to the top: Federico Bahamontes (ESP)

  40. 1957

    Stage 18 · first to the top: Jean Dotto (FRA)

  41. 1956

    Stage 11 · first to the top: Valentin Huot (FRA)

  42. 1955

    Stage 18 · first to the top: Charly Gaul (LUX)

  43. 1954

    Stage 11 · first to the top: Federico Bahamontes (ESP)

  44. 1953

    Stage 10 · first to the top: Jesús Loroño (ESP)

  45. 1952

    Stage 18 · first to the top: Fausto Coppi (ITA)

  46. 1951

    Stage 12 · Dax → Tarbes

    Won by ?

    Dutch rider Wim van Est, in yellow, plunged 70 metres off the Aubisque descent into a ravine — and survived. He was hauled out with a rope of knotted tubular tyres. His watch sponsor ran the ad: 'Seventy metres deep I dropped, my heart stood still but my Pontiac never stopped!'

    Stage 13 · first to the top: Raphaël Géminiani (FRA)

  47. 1950

    Stage 11 · first to the top: Jean Robic (FRA)

  48. 1949

    Stage 11 · first to the top: Fausto Coppi (ITA)

  49. 1948

    Stage 7 · first to the top: Bernard Gauthier (FRA)

  50. 1947

    Stage 15 · first to the top: Jean Robic (FRA)

  51. 1910

    Stage 10 · Luchon → Bayonne

    Won by Octave Lapize (FRA)

    Crossed for the first time on the same monstrous 326 km stage as the Tourmalet. Officials waiting at the summit watched riders push their bikes up a rough track, hours apart.

Often ridden with

A Grand Tour stage rarely settles for one col. Col d'Aubisque & Col du Soulor has shared a day's racing with each of these roads.