Aiguilles Rouges
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 View from Brevent |
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| height | 2965 m | |
| location | Haute-Savoie , Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes , France | |
| Mountains | Savoy Prealps | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ N , 6 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| rock | Gneiss | |
The Aiguilles Rouges (dt. 'Red tips') are a mountain range in the northern French Alps .
location
The Aiguilles Rouges run from north to south and are part of the Savoy Prealps . In the east lies the valley of the Arve with Chamonix and Argentière , in the south Les Houches , in the southwest Servoz . At the northern end of the Col des Montets leads to Vallorcine . On the other side of the Arve valley lies the Mont Blanc group . The Massif du Giffre joins in to the northwest .
Geography and surface shape
The highest point is the Aiguille du Belvédère at 2,965 meters. The southwestern part of the mountain range is also called the Massif de Pormenaz and is separated from the rest by the Diosaz gorge .
There are the following peaks:
- Aiguille du Belvédère (2,965 m) as the highest point
- Aiguille de Tete Plate (2,944 m)
- Aiguille de la Floria (2,888 m)
- Aiguille du Pouce (2,873 m)
- Glière (2,836 m)
- Aiguille Pourrie (2,562 m)
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Brévent (2,525 m), ski mountain, in the south and accessed by a cable car from Chamonix
- in front is the Planpraz (2,000 m)
- Aiguillette des Houches (2,312 m)
- la Pointe Noire de Pormenaz (2,323 m) in the Massif de Pormenaz
In between are the following lakes:
River:
Near the Col de l'Encrenaz in the North rises the Eau Noire , a tributary of the Trent . In the south the water flows through the Diosaz into the Arve.
geology
Together with the Arpille , the Aiguilles Rouges form the Aiguilles Rouges / Arpille massif, one of the four central massifs of the Swiss Alps . The name means “red tips” in German and is derived from the characteristic color, which is based on gneiss containing iron oxide . Otherwise it consists of metamorphic rocks . In contrast to the “sister massif” on the other side of the Arve, the Mont-Blanc group , there is little granite .
The so-called blood stone, a red boulder in Ins in the Swiss canton of Bern, probably comes from the Aiguilles Rouges.
Natural and cultural landscape
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Chalet of the management of the nature reserve on the Col des Montets.
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Capricorn in the Aiguilles Rouges.
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On the southwest side of the Aiguilles Rouges there is a rich flora. Above 2,000 meters, the climate is alpine . On the north-western side there is less vegetation because of the lower solar radiation. The national nature reserve "Aiguilles Rouges" has been located on part of the Aiguilles rouges since 1974. The "Association for the Aiguilles Rouges Nature Reserves" is committed to protecting the natural environment.
The eastern Aiguilles Rouges are particularly popular with hikers because of their good views of Mont Blanc . The east side of the Brevent is accessible from Chamonix as a ski area .
Literature and film
The Aiguilles Rouges can be found in the autobiographical work of the mountain writer Oskar Erich Meyer .
According to his fictional biography, the parents of secret agent James Bond died in a mountain accident in the Aiguilles Rouges near Chamonix when he was eleven years old. The mountain range is also mentioned in the novel With Love from Moscow .
The French feature film Les aiguilles rouges from 2006 is set in the Aiguilles Rouges , in which a group of eight boy scouts are punished by having to climb the Brevent .
Web links
- Association des Réserves Naturelles des Aiguilles Rouges - Association for the nature reserves of the Aiguilles Rouges
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pormenaz, Diosaz. geol-alp.com, accessed on May 24, 2017 .
- ^ Ian Fleming's James Bond: Annotations and Chronologies for Ian Fleming's Bond Stories . AuthorHouse, 2006, ISBN 978-1-4259-3100-1 , pp. 27 ( books.google.de ).
- ↑ Les aiguilles rouges (2006), un film de Jean-François Davy. Rhône-Alpes Cinéma, accessed on May 24, 2017 .