Ciarforon or CharforonSCT Partout géonavigateur - Aosta Valley
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Massif of the

Graian Alps The Graian Alps (french: Alpes grées ; it, Alpi Graie ) are a mountain range in the western part of the Alps. Etymology The name ''Graie'' comes from the ''Graioceli'' Celtic tribe, which dwelled in the area surrounding the Mont Cenis pass and t ...

on the border of

Aosta Valley , Valdostan or Valdotainian it, Valdostano (man) it, Valdostana (woman)french: Valdôtain (man)french: Valdôtaine (woman) , population_note = , population_blank1_title = Official languages , population_blank1 = Italian French ...

and

Piedmont it, Piemontese , population_note = , population_blank1_title = , population_blank1 = , demographics_type1 = , demographics1_footnotes = , demographics1_title1 = , demographics1_info1 = , demographics1_title2 ...

, Italy.

Location

It lies south of

, on the watershed between

Valsavarenche Valsavarenche (local Valdôtain: ; known as ''Valsavara'' under fascist rule from 1939 to 1946, and as ''Valsavaranche'' from 1946 to 1976) is a ''comune'' in the Aosta Valley, northern Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian R ...

and the

Orco Valley The Orco Valley ( it, Valle dell'Orco) is a valley in the Piedmont region of northern Italy located in the Graian Alps, in the territory of the Metropolitan City of Turin. The valley takes its name from the Orco river, which flows through the va ...

. It boasts a mighty dome-shaped summit and a huge

ice sheet In glaciology, an ice sheet, also known as a continental glacier, is a mass of glacial ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than . The only current ice sheets are in Antarctica and Greenland; during the Last Glacial Period at Las ...

on its upper slopes. The mountain is glaciated on all four sides. Ciarforon2

Location

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