Aiguille Verte

Aiguille Verte (center) and Aiguille du Dru (before)

The Aiguille Verte (center) with the doppelgipfligen Aiguille du Dru (left) and Les Droites (right)

The Aiguille Verte with a height of 4122 meters, is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif. It is regarded as one of the most difficult, if not as the most difficult to besteigende four peaks in the Alps:

• The easiest ascent is named after the first man to climb Whympercouloir, a ausapernde today in hot summers ice chute with an average inclination of 47 °. In the upper part of the slope increases to 55 °. The tour can be done almost exclusively in the early summer, when still prevail cheap Firnverhältnisse. Because of the rising when heated stones falling you should have left the channel in the early morning. With Edward Whymper reached on 29 June in 1865 Christian Almer and Franz Biner first time the culmination of Verte.
• Alternatively, the rising of the right Whympercouloirs south pillar of the Grande Rocheuse, 4102 m climb, and go from this side peak on the summit ridge to the highest peak (difficulty in the rock to UIAA III). The Lead on the Südsporn the Rocheuse was committed by Michel Balmat, Michel Ducroz and R. Fowler on September 17, 1865 the third ascent of the Verte first time.
• The so-called Moinegrat offers (often combined, ie eisdurchsetzten ) rising above the southwest ridge of the Aiguille Verte. A few days after the Erstbesteigern followed by GC Hodgkinson, Charles Hudson, TS Kennedy, Michel Croz, MA Ducroz and Peter Perren on July 5, 1865, this route to the summit. The difficulties in the rock to reach the third degree according to the UIAA scale.

The Gratüberschreitungen the Verte are among the largest enterprises that can perform advanced climbers in the Alps.

As a mountain refuge located offers the Refuge du Couvercle, one south of the mountain located on 2687 m of the French Alpine Club hut CAF. The hut can be reached from the Mont Envers train station in about 3.5 hours ( Gletscherbegehung! ).

The Aiguille Verte is surrounded by large glaciers. In the West, the Mer de Glace flows around the massif. To the south lies the great glacier basin of the Glacier de Talefre. In the north of the Glacier d' Argentière flows with long tongue in the Chamonix valley.

In the west ridge of the Aiguille Verte rise with the repellent double summit of the Aiguille du Dru two of the most famous and difficult climbing mountains in Europe, where alpine history was written. To the east, close to the Droites, 4000 m, and the Courtes, 3856 m, impressive mountain shapes, whose difficult north walls rise from the Argentière basin.