Mont Pelvoux

North face of Mont Pevoux

The Mont Pelvoux is a mountain in the Haut- Dauphiné in the French western Alps. Its culminating point is the 3,946 m high Pointe Puiseux ( west summit ). In addition, the solid with the Pointe Durand ( 3,932 m), the Trois Dents du Pelvoux ( 3,682 m ) and the Petit Pelvoux ( 3,753 m) three distinct peaks on. Intercalated between the highest elevations is the little sloping glacier plateau of the Glacier du Pelvoux, drain the ice to the northeast in the columns of the rich Glacier Violet ou Veyro. The highest peaks are to climb from the plateau of relatively not difficult. The plateau of the Glacier du Pelvoux can be reached most easily from the Refuge du Pelvoux, CAF hut in the south of the mountain Stocks, designated by the with Couloir Coolidge, 35 ° steep ice and Firnrinne that are part of the Glacier de Sialouze is even ( level of difficulty » peu difficile ' on the French grading scale, about 4 hours from the cottage).

The Mont Pelvoux part of the Ecrins massif (French Massif des Ecrins ), the highest so far south and west of standing mountain range of the Alps. When Savoy was not part of the Mont Blanc of France, was the Mont Pelvoux as the highest mountain in the country. Only the first climbers realized that the neighboring Barre des Ecrins Mont Pelvoux clearly dominates. Because of this error, the entire mountain range is also often referred to as Pelvoux today.

The first ascent of Mont Pelvoux took place on July 30, 1828 by A. Durand and the two hunters Jacques Etienne Liotard Matéoud and Alexis. It is believed that they also Pte. Puiseux climbed. The first confirmed ascent of the main summit but dated 9 August 1848, when Victor Puiseux - up to the Glacier du Pelvoux by P. A. Barneoud accompanied - which reached peak named after him.