The Col de Tourniol is a

mountain pass A mountain pass is a navigable route through a mountain range or over a ridge. Since many of the world's mountain ranges have presented formidable barriers to travel, passes have played a key role in trade, war, and both Human migration, human a ...

located at an altitude of 1,145 meters in the French department of Drôme, in the western part of the

Massif du Vercors The Vercors Massif is a range in France consisting of rugged plateaus and mountains straddling the ''départements'' of Isère and Drôme in the French Prealps. It lies west of the Dauphiné Alps, from which it is separated by the rivers Drac ...

History

On , EAS Flight 602, a Fairchild FH-227B en route from Paris to Valence with 3 crew members and 19 passengers, struck the terrain near the Col de Tourniol during the approach procedure to

Valence-Chabeuil Airport Valence - Chabeuil Airport is an airport in France, located about east of Valence (in the Drôme department, Rhone-Alpes region) and approximately south-southeast of Paris. The airport was a pre-World War II French Air Force (Armée de l'A ...

. There were no survivors.

Cycling

The Tour de France included this pass, categorized as first category, during the 19th stage of the

1987 Tour de France The 1987 Tour de France was the 74th edition of the Tour de France, taking place from 1 to 26 July. It consisted of 25 stages over . It was the closest three-way finish in the Tour until the 2007 Tour de France, among the closest overall races i ...

between

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and Villard-de-Lans. The Dutch cyclist

Teun van Vliet Teun van Vliet (born 22 March 1962 in Vlaardingen, South Holland) is a retired road bicycle racer from the Netherlands, who was a professional rider from 1984 to 1990. Van Vliet's best year was 1987, when he won Gent–Wevelgem, Omloop "Het Volk" ...

reached the summit first.

History

Cycling

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