mont blanc

     

The name of this Alp, the highest in Western Europe, means "white mountain"

Trivia about mont blanc

  • There was a cause celebre in 1786 when Jacques Balmat had the savoir faire to climb it
  • In 1760 Horace Benedict de Saussure of Geneva offered a prize to the first to scale this Alpine peak
  • Shelley "penned" that this alpine peak "gleams on high: the power is there, The still and solemn power of many sights"
  • In the early 1860s the Bisson brothers climbed to the top of this highest peak & took photos
  • Italy's & France's presidents did the ribbon-cutting on a new tunnel through this mountain
  • A 7-mile tunnel through this mountain peak connects Italy to Chamonix, France
  • Only 2 Alpine peaks exceed 15,000 feet -- Monte Rosa & this one
  • Lord Byron called this peak on the French-Italian border "The Monarch of Mountains"
  • This "white mountain" on the border of France, Italy & Switzerland is the highest peak in Europe
  • This mountain climbs to 15,771 feet in the Savoy Alps
  • A 7.2 mile auto tunnel through this Alpine peak connects Courmayeur, Italy with Chamonix, France
  • Today climbers can make it from the Chamonix city hall to the top of this mountain and back in less than 5 1/2 hours
  • Shelley's poem about this Alpine peak was written "in the Vale of Chamouni"

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  • Just a Sunday stroll, eh? RT @kilianj: Running up to Mont Blanc with friends :)
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