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Mont Blanc (French) or Monte Bianco (Italian), meaning "White Mountain", is the highest mountain in the Alps, Western Europe and the European Union. It rises 4,810.45 m (15,782 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 between the regions of Aosta Valley, Italy, and Haute-Savoie, France and the location of the summit is on the watershed line between the valleys of Ferret and Veny in Italy and the Arve Valley in France.
The two most famous towns near Mont Blanc are Courmayeur in Aosta Valley, Italy, and Chamonix in Haute-Savoie, France—the site of the first Winter Olympics. A cable car ascends and crosses the mountain from Courmayeur to Chamonix.
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 Mont Blanc massif is popular for mountaineering, hiking, skiing and snowboarding.
The summit of Mont Blanc is a thick, perennial ice and snow dome whose thickness varies, so no exact and permanent summit elevation can be determined. But accurate measurements have been made. 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 (15,782 ft 2 in).
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The Aiguille du Midi (3,842 m) is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps.
The cable car to the summit, the Téléphérique de l'Aiguille du Midi, was built in 1955 and held the title of the world's highest cable car for about two decades. It still holds the record as the highest vertical ascent cable car in the world, from 1,035 m to 3,842 m. There are two sections: from Chamonix to Plan de l'Aiguille at 2,317 m and then directly, without any support pillar, to the upper station at 3,777 m (the building contains an elevator to the summit). The span of the second section is 2,867 m measured directly, but only 2,500 m measured horizontally. It thus still is the second longest span width, measured directly.
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Immacolata Giordano, Visual Poetry (Sami), fridgeirsson, Belén Losas, and 282 other people added this photo to their favorites.
ericrstoner (16 months ago | reply)
Impressive, monumental scale . . . brings us humans down to size.
Magio76 (16 months ago | reply)
stunning
Visual Poetry (Sami) (16 months ago | reply)
Wow, excellent catch. It really shows scale-massive! Love the brown tones too!
Belén Losas (16 months ago | reply)
Espectacular
duqueıros (16 months ago | reply)
impressive shot !
itucker (16 months ago | reply)
better still in person, i suspect, but this is outstanding!!
have a great weekend katarina, take care :-)
Brandon C. Watson (16 months ago | reply)
Wow, fantastic. Another great photograph!
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Julian Hidalgo (16 months ago | reply)
Wow! Impressive
Unlucky_Alf [deleted] (16 months ago | reply)
Great shot.
lregoli (16 months ago | reply)
Great shot! I love the whole series!
a_kindredspirit (16 months ago | reply)
Amazing clarity, amazing perspective, splendid shot! Have a wonderful weekend, Katarina!
RadamesM (16 months ago | reply)
Vanilla and chocolate icecream.
ΞSSΞ®®Ξ (16 months ago | reply)
beautiful wonderful powerful
monilague (16 months ago | reply)
Excellent composition and love the contrast of tones.
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jeanmical (16 months ago | reply)
wow just fantastic composition with different colours of snow...une marvelous ambiance !!
Have a nice week-end dear Katarina. bises.
oatjiro (16 months ago | reply)
One of the best image ever seen!
Noro8 (16 months ago | reply)
Great shot- really nice series..! Have a grand weekend!
Story Teller-49 (16 months ago | reply)
Beautiful shadows,highlights,and , textures ! Lovely capture Katarina !!
Shaji Manshad (16 months ago | reply)
wow.. what a gorgeous shot it is.. congrats
blair4bears (16 months ago | reply)
That person standing on the outcropping gives us the proper scale, impressive image and setting
nègFoto (16 months ago | reply)
SPECTACULAR!!!!
have a great week-end
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RD_Elsie (16 months ago | reply)
Bellissima, congrats
Beaches Marley (16 months ago | reply)
This belongs as a cover for magazines!!!!!
IgorK54 (16 months ago | reply)
Kako su samo ove boje izvanredne. Odličan kontrast. A imala si zaista i ugodno vreme.
Mohtaj (16 months ago | reply)
So very beautiful!
papdineagi (16 months ago | reply)
Lélegzetelállító részletek! Csodás fotó!
RaffaLUCE (16 months ago | reply)
Great composition, love the line of that ridge and placement of the tiny figure.
Prasanna Gururajan (16 months ago | reply)
breathtaking view
sognatore58 (16 months ago | reply)
This is a wonderful picture. I love all your shot .
Stratospheric ! Wow! This is fantastic :))
Polimo (16 months ago | reply)
Waw, impressive shot, Katarina!
Yvon from Ottawa (16 months ago | reply)
Great shot, Katarina; love the scale of things here!
JP-ZMR (16 months ago | reply)
I do not know what I admire most: image quality or the effort of the photographer who climbed so high in the mountains.
atsjebosma (16 months ago | reply)
wonderful world.........great shot!!
Balázs Papdi (16 months ago | reply)
Azta mindenit, hogy lehet arra a kis szirtre kijutni. :) Lélegzetelállító!
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Shobeir (16 months ago | reply)
Damn, these people are insane :) Such a great adventure shot.
~~J (16 months ago | reply)
Wonderful capture! I love how the snow looks draped on the mountain side.
Marco Antonio Losas (16 months ago | reply)
This capture closely is spectacular, the men meet so small before so immense mountain. Excellent jog, Katarina.
Happy weekend.
André Pipa (16 months ago | reply)
What a view, Katarina!
antoninodias13 (16 months ago | reply)
Brilliant image, great composition!!!!!!
klaus53 (16 months ago | reply)
- molto bella........
dolors ayxendri (16 months ago | reply)
impresionante !!
Iqbal.Khatri (16 months ago | reply)
such a lively shot
ebeydat (16 months ago | reply)
Beautiful shot.
. : Khalid Khan : . (16 months ago | reply)
Great shot....very adventurous feeling to it....
Polježičanin ~ Thanks for 750.000 views (16 months ago | reply)
Da, kad se vidi u originalu tek onda zastane dah. Izvrsna!
junog007 (16 months ago | reply)
great !
Ernie :+) (16 months ago | reply)
Wow, what an impressive picture!
Twilight Tea (16 months ago | reply)
spectacular! respect to the climbers
Ferry Vermeer (16 months ago | reply)
Incredible!
torsten hansen (berlin) (16 months ago | reply)
First clAss MASTERpice - this is sooooooooooooooooooooooo BRILLIANT! have a wonderful weekend!