Mont Ruan
| Mont Ruan | ||
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 View of the Mont Ruan. |
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| height | 3057 m above sea level M. | |
| location | Canton of Valais , Switzerland | |
| Notch height | 227 m | |
| Coordinates | 558 579 / 108217 | |
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The Mont Ruan (also Grand Mont Ruan) is a mountain in the Chablais Alps in the canton of Valais , Switzerland . The Lac d'Emosson reservoir is located at the southern foot of Mont Ruan . The main peak is at 3057 m above sea level. M. , to the west of it, directly on the border with France, is the 200 meters lower summit of Petit Ruan (2846 m), east of the Tour Sallière (3220 m).
Mont Ruan is the westernmost three-thousand-meter peak in Switzerland.
On the slopes of Grand Mont Ruan, Jacques Balmat , one of the first to conquer Mont Blanc, disappeared in 1834 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ From the topographic maps of Swisstopo .
- ↑ Jean-Philippe Buord, Les Mysteres de la Haute-Savoie, Éditions de Borée, 2005, 349 p. ( ISBN 978-2-8449-4300-2 ), p. 195.
Web links
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