Les Périades
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Les Périades (highest point: 3,549 metres (11,644 ft)) is a sharp and heavily-pinnacled mountain ridge, stretching for over 1,500 metres (0.93 mi) in the Mont Blanc massif in Haute-Savoie, France. It runs in a southerly direction from the Col du Tacul to the Col du Mont Mallet. Its highest point is Pointe Cupelin (3,549 metres (11,644 ft))[1]
Principal points along the crest of Les Périades, from south to north:
- Pointe Auguste Cupelin - 3549 m
- Pointe 3517 m
- Pointe de la Fenêtre - 3507 m
- Pointe de Sisyphe - 3460 m
- Pointe Alfred Simond 3457 m
- Pointe Nini - 3455 m
- Pointe Francois Simond - 3493 m
- Pointe des Périades (or Pointe Paul Perret) - 3503 m
Les Périades are divided into three parts by the Brèche Puiseux (or Brèche Supérieure des Périades) and by the Brèche des Périades.
A bivouac hut (known as the "Bivouac Paul Chevalier alle Périades") was installed near Pointe de Sisyphe in 1928 at a height of 3,455 metres (11,335 ft). It eventually became the property of the French Alpine Club, and was renovated in 1996. The site collapsed in 2019 during the summer heatwave, which caused the previously frozen ground to become unstable. It was replaced in 2020, following a public fund-raising campaign, and can accommodate three or four people.[2]
References
External links
- Les Périades on French IGN Geoportal
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- Aiguille d'Argentière
- Aiguille de Bionnassay
- Aiguille de Blaitière
- Aiguille Blanche de Peuterey
- Aiguille du Chardonnet
- Aiguilles du Diable
- Aiguilles Dorées
- Aiguille du Dru
- Aiguille des Glaciers
- Aiguille du Goûter
- Aiguille des Grands Charmoz
- Aiguille des Grands Montets
- Aiguille du Grépon
- Aiguille du Jardin
- Aiguille du Midi
- Aiguille de l'A Neuve
- Aiguille Noire de Peuterey
- Aiguille du Pissoir
- Aiguille du Plan
- Aiguille de Rochefort
- Aiguille du Tour
- Aiguille de Tré la Tête
- Aiguille de Triolet
- Aiguille Verte
- La Breya
- Le Catogne
- Le Châtelet (Mont Blanc)
- Dent du Géant
- Dôme du Goûter
- Dôme de Rochefort
- Les Droites
- Le Génépi
- Grand Capucin
- Grand Darray
- Grand Pilier d'Angle
- Grande Lui
- Grande Pointe des Planereuses
- Grande Rocheuse
- Grandes Jorasses
- Mont Blanc
- Mont Blanc de Courmayeur
- Mont Blanc du Tacul
- Mont Brouillard
- Mont Dolent
- Mont Mallet
- Mont Maudit
- Pic Eccles
- Picco Luigi Amedeo
- Pointe Allobrogia
- Pointe Helbronner
- Pointe d'Orny
- Pointe des Plines
- Pointe Ronde
- Pointe Walker
- Le Portalet
- Punta Baretti
- Tita Neire
- Tour Noir
- Tour Ronde
(first or major ascents)
- Allain
- Almer
- Anderegg (J.)
- Anderegg (M.)
- Balmat
- Blanchard
- Blodig
- Boivin
- Bonatti
- Bonington
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- Brown
- Burgener
- Cassin
- Charlet
- Clough
- Cordier (H.)
- Cordier (P.)
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- Croz
- Dent
- Desmaison
- Destivelle
- Długosz
- Eccles
- Eckenstein
- Gabarrou
- Ghirardini
- Graham Brown
- Güssfeldt
- Harlin
- Heckmair
- Hemming
- Hudson
- Kennedy
- King
- Klucker
- Kuffner
- Kukuczka
- Kurtyka
- Lachenal
- Lafaille
- Lambert
- MacIntyre
- Mallory
- Maund
- Mazeaud
- Messner
- Middlemore
- Moore
- Mummery
- Paccard
- Paradis
- Patey
- Ratti
- Rébuffat
- Rey
- Robbins
- Roch
- Rouse
- de Saussure
- Smythe
- Stephen
- Terray
- Twight
- Vallençant
- Walker
- Whillans
- Whymper
- Winthrop Young
- Arve (river)
- Chemin de fer du Montenvers
- Giardino Botanico Alpino Saussurea
- Haute Route
- Marathon du Mont Blanc
- Mont Blanc glacier flood
- Mont Blanc tramway
- Mont Blanc Tunnel
- Saint-Gervais–Vallorcine railway
- Skyway Monte Bianco
- Top of the Mont Blanc
- Tour du Mont Blanc
- Val d'Aosta
- Val Ferret
- Val Veny
- Vallée Blanche Aerial Tramway