Haute-Savoie
Arrondissement of Bonneville
Chamonix

Aiguille du Midi

The Aiguille du Midi is a 3,842-metre-tall mountain in the Mont Blanc massif within the . It is a popular tourist destination and can be directly accessed by cable car from that takes visitors close to Mont Blanc.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Step into the void and Rond Glacier.

Photo: O.Taris, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Glacier
Photo: Rémih, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Glacier
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Grand Couloir and Les Praz.

Locality
Photo: Abjad, CC BY 3.0.
The is a couloir on the . At 3,340 metres altitude, this gully has to be traversed on foot to reach the scramble beyond the up to the Goûter Refuge on the Goûter Route on .

Hamlet
Photo: Kulmalukko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Les-Praz-de-Chamonix is a mountain village in the , part of the commune of . Altitude: 1060 m.

Hamlet
Photo: Kulmalukko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a frazione of in the region of . is situated 9 km southeast of Aiguille du Midi.

Aiguille du Midi

Latitude
45.8787° or 45° 52′ 43″ north
Longitude
6.88755° or 6° 53′ 15″ east
Elevation
3,842 metres (12,605 feet)
Open location code
8FQ8VVHQ+F2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 167075493
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
2993964
Wiki­data ID
Q404728
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Aiguille du Midi” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Aiguille du Midi”
  • Arabic: “نتوء ميدي”
  • Armenian: “Էգյուի դյու Միդի”
  • Armenian: “Էգյուի-դյու-Միդի”
  • Basque: “Aiguille du Midi”
  • Bulgarian: “Егий дю Миди”
  • Bulgarian: “Егюий дю Миди”
  • Catalan: “Aiguille du Midi”
  • Cebuano: “Aiguille du Midi (tumoy sa bukid sa Pransiya, Rhône-Alpes, Département de la Haute-Savoie)”
  • Cebuano: “Aiguille du Midi”
  • Chinese: “南針峰”
  • Chinese: “南针峰”
  • Croatian: “Aiguille du Midi”
  • Czech: “Aiguille du Midi”
  • Danish: “Aiguille du Midi”
  • Dutch: “Aiguille du Midi”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل نتوء ميدى”
  • Finnish: “Aiguille du Midi”
  • French: “aiguille du Midi”
  • French: “Aiguille du midi”
  • French: “Aiguille du Midi”
  • French: “Aiguille Du Midi”
  • Galician: “Aiguille du Midi”
  • Georgian: “ეგიუი-დიუ-მიდი”
  • German: “Aiguille du Midi”
  • German: “Sender Aiguille du Midi”
  • Greek: “Αιγκύγ ντυ Μιντί”
  • Hebrew: “מחט הצהרים”
  • Hungarian: “Aiguille du Midi”
  • Icelandic: “Aiguille du Midi”
  • Italian: “Aiguille du Midi”
  • Japanese: “エギーユ・デュ・ミディ”
  • Japanese: “エギュイ・ド・ミディ”
  • Ladin: “Aiguille du Midi”
  • Macedonian: “Егиј ди Миди”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aiguille du Midi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aiguille du Midi”
  • Norwegian: “Aiguille du Midi”
  • Persian: “آیگوئل دو میدی”
  • Polish: “Aiguille du Midi”
  • Portuguese: “Agulha do Midi”
  • Portuguese: “Aiguille du Midi”
  • Russian: “Эгюий-дю-Миди”
  • Serbian: “Егиј ди Миди”
  • Slovenian: “Aiguille du Midi”
  • Spanish: “Aiguille du Midi”
  • Spanish: “L’Aiguille du Midi”
  • Swedish: “Aiguille du Midi”
  • Ukrainian: “Aiguille du Midi”
  • Ukrainian: “Шпиль Півдня”
  • Venetian: “Aiguille du Midi”
  • Vietnamese: “Aiguille du Midi”
  • Welsh: “Aiguille du Midi”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Terrasse 3842 and Musée de l’Alpinisme de Pointe.

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