Dent du Géant

The Dent du Géant (Italian Dente del Gigante, German about Giant's Tooth ) is at an altitude of 4013 m, although a lower, but, due to its eminent figure, still imposing four-thousand in the Mont Blanc mountain range on the border between Italy and France. In addition to the higher North summit ( Pointe Graham) the southwest peak ( Pointe Sella ) with 4009 m extends also over the 4,000 mark. To the west lies the glacier Glacier du Geant, over which the cable car of Courmayeur Entrèves at Pointe Helbronner and Aiguille du Midi leads up to Chamonix.

The first ascent of the lower West Summit succeeded on July 29, 1882 Alessandro Corradino, the brothers Alfonso and Gaudenzio Sella from Biella with the leaders Jean -Joseph, Daniel, and Baptiste Maquignaz from Breuil, the high nailed to artificial means through the southwest wall. Three weeks later, on August 20, 1882 followed in their footsteps, the Briton WW Graham with the leaders Alphonse Payot and Auguste Cupelin, this rope team came to the main summit. Soon after, the smooth plates were insured in the south-west wall with fixed ropes, which now hang in many decades there and make the increase a Seilhangelei. The normal route is now indicated by III ( digits), otherwise II, but with non- use of the fixed ropes to V .

The summit is the best of the Torino Hut (Italian: Rifugio Torino ) ( 3371 m slm ) of the Italian side to achieve.

From the Dent du Géant the Rochefortgrat draws on the Aiguille de Rochefort ( 4001 m), Mont Mallet ( 3989 m) and the Dôme de Rochefort ( 4015 m) on the Grandes Jorasses ( 4208 m).