Aiguille d'Argentière

Aiguille d'Argentière
	Aiguille d'Argentière
height	3901 m above sea level M.
location	Switzerland , France
Mountains	Mont Blanc massif
Dominance	4 km → Les Droites
Notch height	473 m ↓ Brêche de l'Amône
Coordinates , ( CH )	45 ° 57 '35 " N , 7 ° 1' 13" O ( 567 563 / 89881 ) coordinates: 45 ° 57 '35 " N , 7 ° 1' 13" O ; CH1903: five hundred sixty-seven thousand five hundred sixty-three / 89881
First ascent	July 15, 1864 by Edward Whymper and A. Reilly with the guides Michel Croz , M. Payot, H. Charlet (west flank and northwest ridge)
Normal way	Southwest flank
	Aiguille d'Argentière (right) and Aiguille du Chardonnet , ; balloon photograph by Eduard Spelterini around 1909

The Aiguille d'Argentière is 3901 m above sea level. M. high mountain on the border between France and Switzerland .

The first to climb was Edward Whymper in 1864, who was also the first to climb the Barre des Écrins , Aiguille Verte and the Matterhorn . It was the undoing of the well-known and very experienced French mountaineer Stéphane Brosse in 2012. Tobias Haag, the brother of 2014 in Tibet crashed Extremskibergsteigers Sebastian Haag , crashed here in April 2006, also fatal.

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