Les Agneaux
Montagne des Agneaux seen from the SW from the Glacier Noir
The Montagne des Agneaux ( German: Mountain of the Lambs), also called Les Agneaux, is a mehrgipfeliges, up to 3664 m high, glaciated mountain massif in the Ecrins massif in the Dauphiné Alps (France).
Geography
In the east summit ( Agneau Noir ) the solid reaches its greatest height. The somewhat lower central peak is 3648 meters high, the Firnkuppe of the Northwest Summit ( calotte of Agneaux, Agneau Blanc) listed at 3634 m. The massif is upstream in a southwesterly direction, the point of the Filmmakers ( 3205 m), a popular mountain for climbing.
The Montagne des Agneaux lies at the intersection of several major Gratäste, of which the westward against the Pic de Neige Cordier and southeast ridges bordering the glacier basin of the Glacier Blanc on his left mountain slope. To the north- east, the Massif sends one more ridge that drops relatively quickly to the valley of Guisane at Le Monêtier- les- Bains. Even shorter is a burr, which lowers due north in a high valley.
To the south of the main summit, separated from it by the 3529 m high Col Tuckett is, named after the British mountaineer Francis Fox Tuckett, 3568 m high Pic Tuckett. Tuckett made significant contributions to the development of the area. The Ancien Refuge Tuckett, a small hut at the Museum ascent to Refuge du Glacier Blanc, and the immediately adjacent hotel Tuckett, a bivouac block, bear his name.
Between the four ridges, the Montagne des Agneaux carries several glaciers. In the northwest of Glacier Supérieur d'Arsine feeds the Glacier d' Arsine. In the north- east of the massif lies the Glacier du cas, in the southeast of Glacier du Monêtier. In the southwestern flank above the pulling down of the Barre des Ecrins Glacier Blanc hold several smaller ice fields, including Glacier de la Pyramide, Tuckett Glacier and Glacier Jean Gauthier.
Development
Today's normal ascent from the Refuge du Glacier Blanc via the 3345 m high Col du Monêtier and from there east side over the Col to the summit Tuckett ( 4 ½ h, difficulty F / II). In the northern route of the first ascent - WAB Coolidge, Christian Almer and Christian Roth reached the summit on 17 July 1873 - is it a steep Eisanstieg which is significantly heavier ( AD) than the normal route.
The village of Ailefroide (municipality Vallouise ) accessible Refuge du Glacier Blanc to 2,550 meters is the only alpine hut in the immediate vicinity of the Montagne des Agneaux. For the northern routes comes as a base also further afield, 2078 m above sea Refuge de l' Alpe de Villar d' Arene ( Koordinate44.9960956.3844082078 ) in question.