Mont Pelvoux
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Mont Pelvoux (Script error: No such module "IPA".) is a mountain in the Massif des Écrins in the French Alps. It stands Template:Cvt in elevation.
For many years, Mont Pelvoux was believed to be the tallest mountain in the region, since the taller Barre des Écrins cannot be seen from the Durance valley.
The summit of the mountain is called Pointe Puiseux (Script error: No such module "IPA".). There are three subpeaks:
- Pointe Durand (Template:Cvt)
- Petit Pelvoux (Template:Cvt)
- Trois Dents du Pelvoux (Template:Cvt)
Ascents
The first ascent of Mont Pelvoux was by Captain Durand and the two chamois hunters Alexis Liotard and Jacques-Etienne Matheoud on 30 July 1828. This party returned, with more people, to the summit in 1830. Both times they climbed the "Pointe Durand".[1]
The highest point is named after the astronomer Victor Puiseux, who reached it first with his guide Pierre Antoine Barnéoud on 9 August 1848.[2] Barnéoud had been the third guide in the 1830 re-ascent.[1]
See also
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References
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- ↑ a b Guillaume Christian, La Première Ascension du Pelvoux en 1828
- ↑ W.A.B. Coolidge, Victor Puiseux et la Première Ascension du Mont Pelvoux, The Alpine Journal, Volume 19, 1898
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