Mètres | Eng. feet. | [1] | ||||||||
1. | Mont Blanc | 4810 | = | 15,781 | ||||||
2. | Grandes Jorasses | 4206 | . | 13,800 | ||||||
3. | Aiguille | Verte | 4127 | . | 13,540 | |||||
4. | " | de Bionnassay | 4061 | . | 13,324 | |||||
5. | Les Droites | 4030 | . | 13,222 | ||||||
6. | Aiguille | du Géant | 4010 | . | 13,157 | |||||
7. | " | de Trélatête, | No. | 1 | 3932 | . | 12,900 | |||
" | " | " | 2 | 3904 | . | 12,809 | ||||
" | " | " | 3 | 3896 | . | 12,782 | ||||
8. | " | d'Argentière | 3901 | . | 12,799 | |||||
9. | " | du Triolet | 3879 | . | 12,726 | |||||
10. | " | du Midi | 3843 | . | 12,608 | |||||
11. | " | du Glacier | 3834 | . | 12,579 | |||||
12. | Mont Dolent | 3830 | . | 12,566 | ||||||
13. | Aiguille | du Chardonnet | 3823 | . | 12,543 | |||||
14. | " | du Dru | 3815 | . | 12,517 | |||||
15. | " | de Miage | 3680 | . | 12,074 | |||||
16. | " | du Plan | 3673 | . | 12,051 | |||||
17. | " | de Blatière | 3533 | . | 11,591 | |||||
18. | " | des Charmoz | 3442 | . | 11,293 |
The frontier-line follows the main ridge. Very little of it can be seen from the Valley of Chamounix, and from the village itself two small strips only are visible (amounting to scarcely three miles in length), viz. from the summit of Mont Blanc to the Dôme du Goûter, and in the neighbourhood of the Col de Balme. All the rest is concealed by outlying ridges and by mountains of secondary importance.
Mont Blanc itself is bounded by the two glaciers of Miage, the glaciers de la Brenva and du Géant, the Val Veni and the Valley of Chamounix. A long ridge runs out towards the N.N.E. from the summit, through Mont Maudit, to the Aiguille du Midi. Another ridge proceeds towards the N.W., through the Bosse du Dromadaire to the Dome du Goûter; this then divides into two, of which one continues N.W. to the Aiguille du Goûter, the other
- ↑ Some of these heights have no business to figure in a list of the principal peaks of the chain, being nothing more than teeth or pinnacles in ridges, or portions of higher mountains. Such, for example, are the Aiguilles du Geant, du Dru, and de Bionnassay.