Mont Aiguille
| Mont Aiguille | ||
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_1.jpg) Mont Aiguille (left) from the north |
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| height | 2087 m | |
| location | France | |
| Mountains | Vercors , Dauphiné Alps | |
| Coordinates | 44 ° 50 ′ 31 ″ N , 5 ° 33 ′ 9 ″ E | |
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| rock | Reef limestone | |
| First ascent | June 26, 1492 by Antoine de Ville | |
| Normal way | From the west: PD , UIAA II-III , partially insured | |
 The Mont Aiguille from the southwest from the Pas de l'Aiguille seen |
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 The Mont Aiguille in winter |
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The Mont Aiguille (loosely translated: rock needle) is a 2087 m high mountain in the French Alps . It is located in the northernmost part of the municipality of Chichilianne . It is best known for its first ascent in 1492 .
topography
Mont Aiguille is located 58 km south of Grenoble in the Vercors massif , a mountain group of the Dauphiné foothills in the western Alps .
The mountain is characterized by its striking table mountain -like shape. It has a narrow, flat summit plateau, which extends from the highest point about 500 meters in a south-westerly direction and has two further secondary peaks with 2071 m and 2024 m . The width of the plateau is only 100 meters. Below this plateau, the Mont Aiguille slopes down on all sides with 300 meter high rock faces. The tree line is around 1500 m .
Ascent history
Due to its steep walls, Mont Aiguille was considered inaccessible in the Middle Ages and was also known under the name of Mons Inaccessibilis . King Charles VIII the Friendly or the Courtly , to whom the bizarre shape of the mountain was described, ordered his chamberlain Antoine de Ville to attempt an ascent in 1492. On June 26, 1492, de Ville and more than ten other expedition members, including two priests and a notary, reached the summit from the Col de l'Aupet pass ( 1627 m ) in the west with the help of ladders and other mountaineering equipment . A mass was read there and the mountain was officially renamed “Aiguille Fort”, a name that did not catch on. In addition, summit crosses and a small hut were built. The expedition spent six days on the summit and, having arrived safely back "down", was paid homage by the common people and members of the specially convened Parlement de Grenoble .
The first ascent is considered today, alongside the first ascent of Mont Ventoux by Francesco Petrarca, as the birth of alpinism . It was described by François Rabelais in his Quart livre .
It was not until 1834 that the shepherd Jean Liotard, a descendant of one of the first climbers, climbed Mont Aiguille for the second time.
In 1878, the Club Alpin Français partially expanded the first climbers' route into a via ferrata , which is still considered the normal route to the summit today. There are now several more difficult climbing routes on the mountain and it has even been skied on.
literature
- Reinhold Messner : Brave New World - Vertical . In: Mountaineers . tape 6 , 1992, pp. 71–73 ( bardoux.de [accessed June 20, 2009]).
Web links
- Mont Aiguille at Peakware (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Georges Sonnier: La Montagne et l'homme . A. Michel, Paris 1972, p. 50.
- ↑ On skis through the northwest face! In: Bergsteiger , 6/92, p. 89