Mont Pourri

Mont Pourri

The Mont Pourri with a height of 3779 m after the Grande Casse is the second highest mountain in the Vanoise massif, a subgroup of the Graian in the French department of Savoy.

After William Mathews, the 1860 with Michel Croz the first ascent of the Grande Casse had succeeded already, was then failed at Mont Pourri, he commissioned Croz to explore the best ascent. Here, Michel Croz succeeded on 4 October 1861, the ascent.

The name of the mountain in French means literally " spoiled mountain". As the region However, the ( traditional) belongs arpitanischen ( Franco- Provençal ) language area, this is not necessarily equivalent to the original meaning.