Meije
The Meije with the Grand Pic
Aerial view of the north of the Meije massif
La Meije is a 3,983 meter high mountain in Pelvoux in the Dauphiné Alps, which are among the French western Alps. Rearranges the north and east by large glaciers, shows the mountain from the south, with its 800 meters above the Etançongletscher uplifting granite wall a rather rocky shape. Although the Meije is the 4000 -meter mark narrowly missed and clearly dominated by the neighboring Barre des Ecrins, they ought to be according to the Mont Blanc the most famous mountain in France.
The name of the mountain derives from the Provencal Meidjo or Meidjour ( = noon ). Conceptually, the the Meije is nothing more than another Aiguille du Midi.
Summit
- Top of the central ridge Grand Pic de la Meije or Pic Occidentale 3983 m
- Pic Central or Doigt de Dieu, 3,970 m
- Pic Oriental, 3,891 m
- Pic du Glacier Carré, 3,862 m
- Le Grand Doigt, 3,764 m
- Bec de l' Homme, 3,454 m
- Rocher de l' Aigle, 3,450 m
- Serret du Savon, 3,571 m
From the Massif des Rateau in the West is the Meije through the Breche de la Meije, separated from the Pic Gaspard in the southeast by the Breche Maximin Gaspard.
Alpinistisches
The Meije is considered one of the most difficult high peaks of the Alps. The difficulties of their ascent on the Aiguille Verte meet the who is considered one of the most challenging four peaks in the Alps. The Meije has an exciting Ersteigungsgeschichte, was climbed in the course of the Grand Pic after several failed attempts at August 16, 1877 by Emmanuel Boileau de Castelnau and the leaders of father and son Pierre Gaspard. The successful roped climbed the Promontoire Burr left the south wall to Glacier le Carré, later in the south-west wall of the Grand Pic and reached the summit by moving over the last few meters to the north wall. This was the Meije one of the few French high peaks that were mounted by local guides first.
The 3970 m with only a few meters lower Pic Central was climbed on 28 June 1870 by WAB Coolidge, Meta Brevoort his aunt, Ch Gertsch and Christian and Ulrich Almer first.
Another milestone in the alpine Meije sat Ludwig Purtscheller with the brothers Emil and Otto ZSIGMONDY. On July 27, 1885, led the first longitudinal exceeding the summit ridge of the Pic Central from the Grand Pic. A few days later, on August 6, 1885, Dr. Emil ZSIGMONDY crashed while attempting an ascent of the south face Meije to death. The grave of this famous Austrian mountaineer may be in the cemetery of Saint -Christophe -en- Oisans on the access road to La Bérarde, the Alpinist center on the south side of the Meije visited. Even the Munich Mountaineers Emil Solleder that his time is one of the best rock climbers, Meije was undoing. On 27 July 1931, he rushed for exceeding the summit crest 600 meters on the south wall to his death, as a Abseilblock not withstand the load holding and broke out.
The south wall was first climbed in 1912 by the South Tyrolean Angelo and Luigi Rizzi Dibona together with the two Viennese Guido and Max Mayer.
The resort of La Grave on the north and on the south side of La Bérarde Meije are close location for climbers and tourists bases.