Haute Glacier du Freney

Haute Glacier du Freney is a glacier in Courmayeur, Province of Aosta, Aosta Valley. Haute Glacier du Freney is situated nearby to the locality Rochers Gruber, as well as near Gendarme Rouge.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mont Blanc de Courmayeur and Aiguille Blanche de Peuterey.

Mont Blanc de Courmayeur

Peak

Photo: Idéfix, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Mont Blanc de Courmayeur is a point on the south-east ridge of Mont Blanc that forms the summit of the massive south-east face of the mountain. It is connected to Mont Blanc via the Col Major.

Aiguille Blanche de Peuterey

Peak

Photo: Idéfix, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Aiguille Blanche de Peuterey is a mountain of the Mont Blanc massif in Italy. It is considered the most difficult and serious of the alpine 4000-m mountains to climb.

Mont Maudit is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in France and Italy. The French name literally means "Cursed Mountain". Until the end of the 18th century, Mont Blanc and its satellite peaks were collectively known in French as the Montagne Maudite.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Grand Couloir and Checrouit.

Grand Couloir

Locality

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The Grand Couloir is a couloir on the Aiguille du Goûter. At 3,340 metres altitude, this gully has to be traversed on foot to reach the scramble beyond the Tête Rousse Hut up to the Goûter Refuge on the Goûter Route on Mont Blanc.