Val Veny

Coordinates: 45 ° 48 '  N , 6 ° 55'  E

Val Veny​

Italy

View from Val Ferret to the east side of Mont Blanc with the Peuterey ridge in Val Veny

Courmayeur from the north, Val Ferret to the left and Val Veny to the right.

The Val Veny (French; also Val Vény ) is an alpine valley in the Italian region of Aosta Valley . It is southwest of Courmayeur .

geography

The Val Veny borders the eastern Mont-Blanc group to the south. It is towered over by the Italian-French border ridge by up to 2500 meters. To the south ( orographic right), gentler, partly wooded slopes rise. The Val Veny has its origin below the Col de la Seigne (2512 m), over which the Italian-French border runs. It has a length of about eleven kilometers and ends at Entrèves , two kilometers north of Courmayeur.

The trough valley was largely shaped by the Ghiacciaio del Miage and Ghiacciaio del Brenva glaciers. The valley is still subject to major changes.

The geography of the valley is roughly divided into three parts:

• From the head of the valley at Col de la Seigne to the Miagegletscher, the valley runs parallel to the Mont-Blanc massif.
• The Plan Vény plain: the valley floor is filled with river gravel and partly swampy.
• The end of the valley is dominated by Mont Blanc and was formed by the Brenva Glacier.

The Dora di Veny brook flows in the Val Veny and has its origins in the Ghiacciaio del Miage and is fed by other glaciers on the southern slopes of the Mont-Blanc group. At Entrèves, the Dora di Veny joins the Dora di Ferret from the Val Ferret to form the Dora Baltea .

In the north-eastern extension of the valley is the Italian Val Ferret and beyond the main Alpine ridge from the Col du Ferret in Switzerland, the Val Ferret of the same name , which is also located at the foot of the Montblanc massif.

Alpinism

The Val Veny is the starting point of the normal Italian route to Mont Blanc. This path leads over the Miage glacier to the Rifugio Francesco Gonella .

tourism

Panoramic view of the upper part of the valley near the Rifugio Elisabetta Soldini Montanaro refuge.

The Val Veny is the starting point for accessing numerous mountain huts and bivouac boxes :

• Rifugio Monte Bianco - 1,700 m
• Rifugio Maison Vieille - 1,956 m
• Rifugio Elisabetta Soldini Montanaro - 2,195 m
• Rifugio Franco Monzino - 2,590 m
• Rifugio Francesco Gonella - 3,071 m
• Rifugio Durier - 3,358 m
• Rifugio Quintino Sella - 3,363 m
• Bivacco Lorenzo Borelli - Carlo Pivano - 2,310 m
• Bivacco Adolfo Hess - 2,958 m
• Bivacco Gino Rainetto - 3,047 m
• Bivacco della Brenva - 3,060 m
• Bivacco Piero Craveri - 3,490 m
• Bivacco Alberico - Borgna alla Fourche - 3,680 m
• Bivacco Marco Crippa - 3,850 m
• Bivacco Giuseppe Lampugnani - 3,860 m

The Tour du Mont-Blanc, a popular long-distance hiking trail, also leads through the valley.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Giovanni Vezzoli: Erosion in the Western Alps (Dora Baltea Basin) . In: Sedimentary Geology . tape 171 , no. 1-4 , October 2004, pp. 247-259 , doi : 10.1016 / j.sedgeo.2004.05.018 .

Web links

Commons : Valleys of the Aosta Valley region  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Illustrated side of the Val Veny