Grande Tête de l'Obiou

The (large ) Obiou

The Obiou (French: Grande Tête de l' Obiou or common l' Obiou ) is with 2789 meters the highest mountain in the Dévoluy massif, and one of the Dauphiné Alps west upstream massif of the French Alps. It is located in the department of Isère.

Geology

The mountain is in the lower part of the Upper Jurassic sediments and in its higher part of the Cretaceous deposits. Its characteristic shape was formed by weathering and glacial erosion.

Touristic development

About 10 km northeast of the Obiou runs the Route Napoléon, 15 km west of the Route des Alpes. Communities near the Obiou are mens and Corps. The Obiou can commit without climbing gear from the parking lot of the tree from Cabane. Other summit routes lead across rope routes.

History

On Obiou two plane crashes have occurred. 1946, four people died in the crash of an American military aircraft on one of the mountain flanks. On November 13, 1950 all passengers lost in the crash of a passenger plane on the way from Rome to Paris killed 51 Canadians who were on the way back from a pilgrimage to Rome, and seven crew members.