Pointe Helbronner

The Pointe Helbronner is a 3462 m high mountain in the Alps. It is located in the Savoy Alps in the Mont- Blanc massif, between the Grand Flambeau and the Aiguilles Marbrées on the watershed between Savoy and the Aosta Valley.

The mountain peak was named after Paul Helbronner, a French mountaineers and surveyors, who had rendered great service to the mapping of the French Alps.

On the Pointe Helbronner the mountain station of the Funivie Monte Bianco cable car from La Palud in Courmayeur is located on the Rifugio Torino to Pointe Helbronner, and the start and stop of the rotating lift that Vallée Blanche, which over the Glacier du Géant and the Vallée Blanche to the Aiguille du Midi floats.

The Pointe Helbronner is also the starting point of the slopes over the Glacier du Géant the end of the Vallée Blanche and on about the Mer de Glace to the Chemin de fer du Mont Envers or even to Chamonix and for numerous high mountain tours to the neighboring peaks.

The Pointe Helbronner offers a panoramic view of the Valle d'Aosta and Piedmont.

Construction of the Funivie Monte Bianco

In early 2012 began the construction of the Cableway Monte Bianco. With the start of the summer season on April 10, the operation of the last section of line between Rifugio Torino and Pointe Helbronner for probably three years set.