Nine of the first eleven stages of next year's Tour de France may be ones for the sprinters and escape groups, but once the race hits the mountains the riders are in for a tough second half.
There are six stages in the high mountains in the 2011 Tour; three in the Pyrenees followed quickly by three in the Alps. The first mountain climbed is La Hourquette d'Ancrizan (1,538m) on stage 12 while the last is the iconic Alpe d'Huez (1,850m) on stage 19.
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