Montagne des Agneaux
| Montagne des Agneaux | ||
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 Montagne des Agneaux seen from SW from Glacier Noir |
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| height | 3664 m | |
| location | France | |
| Mountains | Écrins , Western Alps | |
| Notch height | 460 m ↓ Cols de la Pyramide | |
| Coordinates | 44 ° 57 '0 " N , 6 ° 25' 47" E | |
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| First ascent | MCAS Coolidge , Christian Almer, and Christian Roth on July 17, 1873 | |
| Normal way | High tour from the Refuge du Glacier Blanc | |
The Montagne des Agneaux (German: Mountain of the Lambs ), also called Les Agneaux , is a glaciated mountain massif with several peaks up to 3664 m high in the Écrins massif in the Dauphiné Alps ( France ).
geography
In the east summit ( Agneau Noir ) the massif reaches its greatest height. The somewhat lower central summit is 3648 m high, the firn knoll of the north-west summit ( Calotte des Agneaux , Agneau Blanc ) is listed at 3634 m . The Pointe des Cinéastes ( 3205 m ), a popular climbing mountain, lies in front of the mountain range in a south-westerly direction .
The Montagne des Agneaux lies at the intersection of several large ridge branches, of which the ridges facing west towards the Pic de Neige Cordier or south-east border the glacier basin of Glacier Blanc on its orographic left side. To the northeast, the massif sends another ridge that drops comparatively quickly towards the valley of the Guisane at Le Monêtier-les-Bains . Even shorter is an arm of the ridge that descends due north into a high valley.
South of the main summit, separated from it by the 3529 m high Col Tuckett , lies the 3568 m high Pic Tuckett, named after the English alpinist Francis Fox Tuckett . Tuckett made significant contributions to the development of the area. The Ancien Refuge Tuckett , a small museum hut at the approach to the Refuge du Glacier Blanc , and the immediately adjacent Hotel Tuckett , a bivouac block, bear his name.
The Montagne des Agneaux carries a number of glaciers between the four ridges. In the northwest, the Glacier Supérieur d'Arsine feeds the Glacier d'Arsine . In the northeast of the massif is the Glacier du Casset , in the southeast of the Glacier du Monêtier . On the southwest flank above Glacier Blanc, which pulls down from the Barre des Écrins , there are several smaller ice fields, including Glacier de la Pyramide , Glacier Tuckett and Glacier Jean Gauthier .
Development
Today's normal ascent from the Refuge du Glacier Blanc leads over the 3345 m high Col du Monêtier and from there on the east side over the Col Tuckett to the summit (4½ h, difficulty F / II ). The northern route of the first climbers - WAB Coolidge , Christian Almer and Christian Roth reached the summit on July 17, 1873 - is a steep ice climb that is significantly more difficult ( AD ) than the normal route.
The Refuge du Glacier Blanc at an altitude of 2550 m, accessible from the village of Ailefroide (municipality of Vallouise ), is the only alpine refuge in the immediate vicinity of the Montagne des Agneaux. For the northern routes comes as a base and the more distant, 2,078 m high altitude Refuge de l'Alpe de Villar-d'Arene ( coordinate ) in question.
Web links
- Les Agneaux. In: summitpost.org. October 21, 2005, accessed July 20, 2013 .
- Montagne des Agneaux. In: camptocamp.org. November 8, 2011, accessed July 20, 2013 (French).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Determined from the map IGN 3436 Meije , Pelvoux , 1989, 1: 25000