Ailefroide

The Ailefroide with their outer on the Glacier Noir

The mehrgipfelige massif of Ailefroide, sometimes referred to as the French plural les Ailefroides, after the Barre des Ecrins and the Meije is the third highest massif in the central Dauphiné Alps. With a height of 3,954 meters, it misses the four thousand meter mark just barely. She is from the northwest best La Bérarde accessible. From the east and south you go the mountain at best, of the same village Ailefroide in Vallouise.

The Ailefroide has several peaks, of which the most important are named as follows:

• L' Occidentale Ailefroide, 3,954 m (western and main summit ) First climbed by WAB Coolidge, Christian Almer, Ulrich Almer, C. Gertsch on July 7, 1870
• L' Ailefroide Centrale, 3,928 m (middle peak ) First climbed by Auguste Reynier with Pierre Gaspard (father), Christophe Clot and Joseph Turc on August 8, 1889
• La Pointe Fourastier, 3,908 m The Pointe Fourastier is named after M. Fourastier, together with H. Le Breton and A. Manhes a difficult north face route to the summit opened on 1 September 1936.
• L' Orientale Ailefroide, 3,848 m ( East Summit ) First ascent: J. Nérot, Emile Pic and Giraud - Lézin on August 25, 1880

The Ailefroide belongs to a long mountain chain to the east via the stand-alone summit of the Pic Sans Nom, 3,914 m, to the Mont Pelvoux, 3,946 m, extends. In the north it is about Col de Coste Rouge, 3,192 m, Pic de la Temple, 3,391 m, Pic Coolidge, 3,774 m, and le Fifre, 3,698 m, with the southernmost four thousand and main peaks of the region, the 4,102 m high Barre des Ecrins connected. The Col de Coste Rouge down withdrawing from the Middle summit north ridge separates the North from the north-west wall. To the south the Ailefroide sends a ridge of the great Glacier de la Pilatte limited in the sequence and to the Les Bans, 3,670 m, swings open.

The Ailefroide carries several glaciers. It feeds an arm of the large debris-covered Glacier Noir (French for black glacier), which flows with a long tongue to the northeast. In addition, it carries a small unnamed hanging glacier in the north wall, the Glacier de l' Ailefroide in the southeast and in the west of the Glacier de Coste Rouge and the small Long Glacier and Glacier Gris.

Of the four, only the peaks Ailefroide Orientale is relatively easy to climb. The entire summit ridge of the Ailefroide Occidentale about Ailefroide Centrale and Pointe Fourastier to Ailefroide Oriental exceeded BR Goodfellow, T. Graham Brown, A. Graven and C. Rodier on 30 August 1933 as the first rope team. The also Coste Rouge ridge called North Ridge is one of the classic combined Gratanstiege in the Alps; he was first climbed on July 1, 1913 by Angelo Dibona and Guido Mayer. Due to the north-west wall Giusto Gervasutti and L. Devies On 23 and 24 July 1936, a direct, extremely difficult route.