4086 x 2704 px | 34,6 x 22,9 cm | 13,6 x 9 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
18 novembre 2012
Lieu:
Route du Fayet, Combloux, Haute-Savoie, Alps, France
Informations supplémentaires:
Mount Blanc at sunset, Black Tree Silhouette on the foreground and Mount Blanc on the background, Note detail of a minuscule airplane flying towards the highest peak helping to lead to the main subject of the image. Black and White mountain scene, Negative 35 mm Ilford XP2 film effect. Mont Blanc (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃.blɑ̃]) or Monte Bianco (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmonte ˈbjaŋko]), both meaning "White Mountain", is the highest mountain in the Alps and the European Union.[1] It rises 4, 810 m (15, 781 ft)[2] above sea level and is ranked 11th in the world in topographic prominence. It is also sometimes known as La Dame blanche (French for "the White Lady") or Il Bianco (Italian for "the White One").The mountain lies in a range called the Graian Alps, between the regions of Aosta Valley, Italy, and Haute-Savoie, France. The location of the summit is on the watershed line between the valleys of Ferret and Veny in Italy and the valleys of Montjoie Valley and Arve Valley in France. The Mont Blanc massif is popular for mountaineering, hiking, skiing, and snowboarding.The three towns and their communes which surround Mont Blanc are Courmayeur in Aosta Valley, Italy, and both Saint-Gervais-les-Bains and Chamonix in Haute-Savoie, France — the latter being the site of the first Winter Olympics. A cable car ascends and crosses the mountain range from Courmayeur to Chamonix, through the Col Du Geant. Begun in 1957 and completed in 1965, the 11.6 km (7¼ mi) Mont Blanc Tunnel runs beneath the mountain between these two countries and is one of the major trans-Alpine transport routes.The summit of Mont Blanc is a thick, perennial ice and snow dome whose thickness varies. No exact and permanent summit elevation can therefore be determined, though accurate measurements have been made on specific dates. For a long time its official elevation was 4, 807 m (15, 771 ft). Then in 2002, the IGN and expert surveyors, with the aid of GPS technology, measured it to be 4, 810.40 m (15, 782ft
