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    Mont Blanc (BrE: /ˌmɒˈblɒ(k)/; AmE: /ˌmɑːn(t)ˈblɑːŋk/; French: Mont Blanc [mɔ̃ blɑ̃]; Italian: Monte Bianco [ˈmonte ˈbjaŋko], both meaning "white mountain")...
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    The Mont Blanc massif (French: Massif du Mont-Blanc; Italian: Massiccio del Monte Bianco) is a mountain range in the Alps, located mostly in France and...
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    E Sherbrooke W Atwater Saint-Denis 146 Christophe-Colomb/Meilleur E Mont-Cassin and Meilleur W Henri-Bourassa Legendre 150 René-Lévesque E Papineau W...
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    The Mont Blanc Tunnel is a highway tunnel between France and Italy, under Mont Blanc in the Alps. It links Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, France with Courmayeur...
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    Chamonix (redirect from Chamonix-Mont-Blanc)
    Chamonix-Mont-Blanc (French pronunciation: [ʃamɔni mɔ̃ blɑ̃]; Arpitan: Chamôni-Mont-Blanc), more commonly known simply as Chamonix (Chamôni), is a commune...
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    Riccardo Cassin (2 January 1909 – 6 August 2009) was an Italian mountaineer, developer of mountaineering equipment and author, and an important figure...
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    The Tour du Mont Blanc or TMB is one of the most popular long-distance walks in Europe. It circles the Mont Blanc massif, covering a distance of roughly...
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    former legate of Benedict XII in Sicily, had been transferred to the Mont-Cassin abbey on October 10 1341. According to the authors Pierre de Casa is...
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    one of the two normal mountaineering routes used to reach the summit of Mont Blanc in the Alps, ascending to a height of 4,808 metres (15,774 ft). The...
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    Jorasses(4208). He climbed the Walkerpfeiler (1200 metres) in the Mont Blanc massif solo via the Cassin route in 2:04 hours. He thus holds the speed record and...
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    The Mont Blanc tramway or Tramway du Mont-Blanc (TMB) is a mountain railway line in the Haute-Savoie department of France. It is the highest in France...
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    Aiguille du Midi (category Mont Blanc massif)
    midi], "Needle at midday") is a 3,842-metre-tall (12,605 ft) mountain in the Mont Blanc massif within the French Alps. It is a popular tourist destination...
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  • up to the Goûter Refuge (3,835 metres (12,582 ft)) on the Goûter Route on Mont Blanc . This area is a well-known accident black spot in dry conditions,...
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    Grandes Jorasses (category Mont Blanc massif)
    The Grandes Jorasses (4,208 m; 13,806 ft) is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif, on the boundary between Haute-Savoie in France and Aosta Valley in Italy...
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    (with several variations) undertaken on foot or by ski touring between the Mont Blanc in Chamonix, France, and the Matterhorn, in Zermatt, Switzerland. First...
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    Noisy-le-Grand–Mont d'Est station is a train station in Noisy-le-Grand, Seine-Saint-Denis, under Les Arcades department store. The station is in the Mont d'Est...
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    Saint-Cassin (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ kasɛ̃]; Arpitan: Sènt-Câssin) is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern...
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    had been climbed for the first time in 1938 by famous climber Riccardo Cassin and consists of 1,200 metres (3,900 ft) of rock-climbing with UIAA difficulty...
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    Aiguille Verte (category Mont Blanc massif)
    122 m (13,524 ft)), which is French for "Green Needle", is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps. It was first climbed on 29 June 1865 by...
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    Laroux, Rene Louis, Rousseltot, Toussaint.) Haythornthwaite, Philip & Cassin-Scott. Uniforms of the Napoleonic Wars in Colour 1796 – 1814. Blandford...
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    ("Sea of Ice") is a valley glacier located on the northern slopes of the Mont Blanc massif, in the French Alps. It is 7.5 km long and 200 metres (660 ft)...
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    east of Lyon. The town is located in a corridor between the mountain of Mont Revard, the first natural rampart of the Massif des Bauges to the east and...
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    on 9 February 1999 by a slab avalanche from Bec du Lachat and Mont Peclerey on the Mont Blanc massif, killing 12 people. In July, 2003, the mayor of Chamonix...
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    Reference, Oxford: Clarendon 1982, p. 8 "Function and Concept", p. 16. Cassin, B., Apter, E., Lezra, J., & Wood, M., eds., Dictionary of Untranslatables:...
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    Glacier de Tête Rousse) is a small but significant glacier located in the Mont Blanc massif within the French Alps whose collapse in 1892 killed 200 people...
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    Aiguille du Dru (category Mont Blanc massif)
    du Dru (also the Dru or the Drus; French, Les Drus) is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps. It is situated to the east of the village...
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  • Kanguru, Nepal - first ascent of route. 1991 Blanchard-Twight on Les Droites, Mont Blanc Massif, French Alps - hard new route with Mark Twight. 1999 M-16, East...
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    Nid d'Aigle station (category Mont Blanc)
    Station) is the terminus of the Tramway du Mont Blanc (TMB) from Saint-Gervais-les-Bains on the slopes of the Mont Blanc. This station welcomes mountaineers...
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    Le Châtelet (2,537 m) is a mountain of the Swiss Mont Blanc massif, overlooking Orsières in the canton of Valais. It lies between the valleys of Orny and...
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    popular tourist destination when alpinism arose, thanks to its proximity to Mont Blanc. Under the Fascist regime and its "Italianist" rule, the town was briefly...
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