L'Ailefroide
| L'Ailefroide | ||
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 The Ailefroide with its face above the Glacier Noir |
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| height | 3954 m | |
| location | France | |
| Mountains | Pelvoux , Western Alps | |
| Coordinates | 44 ° 53 '6 " N , 6 ° 21' 22" E | |
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| First ascent | WAB Coolidge , Christian Almer , Ulrich Almer, Ch. Gertsch on July 7, 1870 | |
| Normal way | Alpine tour | |
The multi-peaked mountain range of the Ailefroide , sometimes also called les Ailefroides in the French plural , is the third highest massif in the central Dauphiné Alps after the Barre des Écrins and the Meije . With a height of 3,954 meters, it barely missed the four thousand meter mark. It is best reached from the north-west from La Bérarde . The best way to get to the mountain from the east and south is from the village of the same name, Ailefroide in Vallouise .
The Ailefroide has several peaks , the following of which are worth mentioning:
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L'Ailefroide Occidentale, 3,954 m (west and main summit)
First ascent: WAB Coolidge , Christian Almer , Ulrich Almer, Ch. Gertsch on July 7, 1870 -
L'Ailefroide Centrale, 3,928 m (central summit)
First ascent: Auguste Reynier with Pierre Gaspard (father), Christophe Clot and Joseph Turc on August 8, 1889 -
La Pointe Fourastier, 3,908 m
The Pointe Fourastier is named after M. Fourastier, who on September 1, 1936, opened a difficult north face route to the summit together with H. Le Breton and A. Manhès. -
L'Ailefroide Orientale, 3,848 m (east summit)
First climbers: J. Nérot, Emile Pic and Giraud-Lézin on August 25, 1880
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The Ailefroide belongs to a long mountain range that extends east over the independent summit of Pic Sans Nom , 3,914 m, to Mont Pelvoux , 3,946 m. In the north it is over Col de Coste Rouge , 3,192 m, Pic de la Temple , 3,391 m, Pic Coolidge , 3,774 m, and le Fifre , 3,698 m, with the most southerly four-thousand-meter peak and main peak of the region, the 4,102 m high Barre des Écrins connected. The north ridge, which descends from the central summit to the Col de Coste Rouge, separates the north from the north-west face. To the south, the Ailefroide sends a ridge that subsequently borders the great Glacier de la Pilatte and swings up to Les Bans , 3,670 m.
The Ailefroide carries several glaciers. It feeds an arm of the large rubble-covered Glacier Noir (French for black glacier ), which flows with a long tongue to the northeast. In addition, it carries a small nameless hanging glacier in the north wall, the Glacier de l'Ailefroide in the southeast and in the west the Glacier de Coste Rouge and the small Glacier Long and Glacier Gris .
Of the four peaks, only the Ailefroide Orientale is comparatively easy to climb. BR Goodfellow, T. Graham Brown, A. Graven and C. Rodier were the first to cross the entire summit ridge from Ailefroide Occidentale via Ailefroide Centrale and Pointe Fourastier to Ailefroide Oriental on August 30, 1933. The north ridge, also known as the Coste Rouge ridge, is one of the classic combined ridge climbs in the Alps; He was of the 1 July 1913 Angelo Dibona and Guido Mayer first ascent . Giusto Gervasutti and L. Devies laid a direct, extremely difficult route through the northwest face on July 23 and 24, 1936.
Web links
- L'Ailefroide on Summitpost (Engl.)