Mont Pelvoux () is a
mountain
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in the
Massif des Écrins
The mountains of the Massif des Écrins (; Écrins Massif) form the core of Écrins National Park in Hautes-Alpes and Isère in the French Alps.French Alps
The French Alps are the portions of the Alps mountain range that stand within France, located in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regions. While some of the ranges of the French Alps are entirely in France, others, such as ...
. It stands in elevation.
For many years, Mont Pelvoux was believed to be the tallest mountain in the region, since the taller
Barre des Écrins
The Barre des Écrins () is a mountain in the French Alps with a peak elevation of . It is the highest peak of the Massif des Écrins and the Dauphiné Alps and the most southerly alpine peak in Europe that is higher than 4,000 metres. It is the ...
cannot be seen from the
Durance
The Durance (; ''Durença'' in the Occitan classical norm or ''Durènço'' in the Mistralian norm) is a major river in Southeastern France. A left tributary of the Rhône, it is long. Its drainage basin is .[summit
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of the mountain is called Pointe Puiseux (). There are three subpeaks:
* ''Pointe Durand'' ()
* ''Petit Pelvoux'' ()
* ''Trois Dents du Pelvoux'' ()
Ascents
The first ascent of Mont Pelvoux was by Captain Durand and the two
chamois
The chamois (''Rupicapra rupicapra'') or Alpine chamois is a species of goat-antelope native to mountains in Europe, from west to east, including the Alps, the Dinarides, the Tatra and the Carpathian Mountains, the Balkan Mountains, the Ril ...
hunters Alexis Liotard and Jacques-Etienne Matheoud on July 30, 1828. This party returned, with more people, to the summit in 1830. Both times they climbed the "Pointe Durand".
[Guillaume Christian]
La Première Ascension du Pelvoux en 1828
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The highest point is named after the astronomer Victor Puiseux
Victor Alexandre Puiseux (; 16 April 1820 – 9 September 1883) was a French mathematician and astronomer. Puiseux series are named after him, as is in part the Bertrand–Diquet–Puiseux theorem. His work on algebraic functions and uniform ...
, who reached it first with his guide Pierre Antoine Barnéoud on August 9, 1848.W.A.B. Coolidge
William Augustus Brevoort Coolidge (August 28, 1850 – May 8, 1926) was an American historian, theologian and mountaineer.
Life
Coolidge was born in New York City as the son of Frederic William Skinner Coolidge, a Boston merchant, and Elis ...
Victor Puiseux et la Première Ascension du Mont Pelvoux
The Alpine Journal, Volume 19, 1898[
]
See also
*List of mountains of the Alps above 3000 m
This page tabulates only the most prominent mountains of the Alps, selected for having a topographic prominence of ''at least'' , and all of them exceeding in height. Although the list contains 537 summits, some significant alpine mountains ar ...
References
External links
Mont Pelvoux on SummitPost
Mont Pelvoux at PeakBagger
Mountains of Hautes-Alpes
Alpine three-thousanders
Mountains of the Alps
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