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Adventure On Mont Blanc

The Mont Blanc (Monte Bianco in Italian) is a granite mountain, located in a valley with many glaciers. This is the peak of the Alps in the Mont Blanc massif, which is shared between the Aosta Valley (Val Veny and Val Ferret), Italy, and Haute-Savoie (Chamonix-Mont-Blanc), France. The most famous nearby places are Courmayeur, Italy and Chamonix-Mont-Blanc and Saint-Gervais-les-Bains in France.

It has an official height of 4810.45 meters (according to the latest official measurement in September 2009) and is the highest point in Italy and France but not the highest in Europe, since according to official geography is with 5642 m Mount Elbrus, which is part of the chain of the Caucasus. The situation of the summit is shared between Italy and France, but French and Swiss cartographers placed the top in France, but after studying many different maps , and with the help of the Cartographic Institute dell'Esercito, Antonio Napolitano, the Italian head of a joint committee, claimed the summit as an Italian.

Many glaciers are all around: in the southern glaciers Freney, La Brenva of Miage, Mont Blanc and Brouillard, and north, and the Bossons glacier Mer de Glace. In 1957, construction began on the Mont Blanc tunnel (completed in 1965) which is 11.6 km long and is a major trans-Alpine transport routes, and that links Italy and France. The solid Mont Blanc is a popular destination for mountaineering, hiking, skiing and snowboarding.

During the eighteenth century was usually called "Mountain damn" in fact a mountain massif still retains this name, Mount Cursed "because, according to legend, in ancient times was greener and the beasts were there . At the beginning of the century, there were several processions among the villagers, because the "Mer de Glace" is dangerously close to Chamonix.

Another legend tells of an enchanted kingdom existed at the summit, where she was the queen of the fairies, the "white goddess" who lived in green meadows, and wove the fate of the inhabitants of the valley. In ancient beliefs, these divine entities should be respected and revered as the summit issued a type of influence, a supernatural force that guided the men without their knowledge and whose influence could be good or bad, as appropriate. With Christianity, these divinities were considered hostile invisible beings, similar to demons.

The English traveler William Windham (1717-1761), who had conducted expeditions in Egypt and the East, held in the summer of 1741 an expedition of discovery into the valley of Chamonix, where he rose to Montenvert. When he arrived in Chamonix Mont-Blanc, marveled at the appearance of the valley and the cliffs, which he could scare the strongest souls. He also said that at night, on glaciers, were made parties witches who danced to the music. With the rationalism of the late eighteenth century and the triumph of materialism of the nineteenth century was dominated by the mountain more accurate and physical skills.

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