The Mont Blanc Tunnel (French: Tunnel du Mont-Blanc, Italian: Traforo del Monte Bianco) is a highway tunnel between France and Italy, under Mont Blanc in...
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Mont Blanc (BrE: /ˌmɒ̃ˈblɒ̃(k)/; AmE: /ˌmɒn(t)ˈblɑːŋk/) is the highest mountain in the Alps and Western Europe, and the highest mountain in Europe outside...
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fire while driving through the Mont Blanc Tunnel between France and Italy. When it stopped halfway through the tunnel, it violently combusted. Other vehicles...
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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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Mont Blanc Tunnel, a tunnel beneath the Mont Blanc mountain Pont du Mont-Blanc, a bridge in Geneva Mont Blanc (Moon), the lunar mountain Mont-Blanc,...
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of the border at the top of Mont Blanc. Alpe No. 47, p. & 47 cards IGN 1993 Barry, Keith. "July 16, 1965: Mont Blanc Tunnel Opens". Wired – via www.wired...
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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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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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Aiguille du Midi (category Mont Blanc massif)
"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 and...
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of the RN 506 from Passy to Chamonix-Mont-Blanc; the RN 506a from Chamonix-Mont-Blanc to the Mont-Blanc tunnel. It was split by the A40 motorway, which...
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1948 alongside all other French toponyms in the Aosta Valley. The Mont Blanc Tunnel, connecting Courmayeur with Chamonix, opened in 1965, and provides...
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longest tunnels in the world. Füssen Border Tunnel Mont Cenis Tunnel (railway) and Fréjus road tunnel Mont Blanc Tunnel (road tunnel) Tenda Tunnels (road...
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Saint-Julien-en-Genevois and Thonon-les-Bains. The French entrance to the Mont Blanc Tunnel into Italy is in Haute-Savoie. It is noted for winter sports; the...
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It is situated near the Italian entrance of the Mont Blanc Tunnel and the Great St Bernard Tunnel, at the confluence of the Buthier and the Dora Baltea...
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The Mont Blanc tramway or Tramway du Mont-Blanc (French pronunciation: [tʁamwɛ dy mɔ̃ blɑ̃], TMB) is a mountain railway line in the Haute-Savoie department...
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Following a major fire in the Mont Blanc tunnel in 1999, measures were taken at the start of 2000 to improve safety in the tunnel. A strict 70 km/h (43 mph)...
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attraction spans the valleys between the two peaks, high above the Mont Blanc Tunnel, which carries automotive passenger and freight traffic under the...
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closing in on the Mont Blanc tunnel. However, extensive French roadworks in the form of contraflows in front of the Mont Blanc tunnel slowed the car significantly...
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Gèant. The refuge lies nearly directly above the 11.6 km (7.2 mi) Mont Blanc Tunnel, which passes deep underground, and connects Courmayeur to Chamonix...
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west to Passy on the east, terminating not far from Chamonix and the Mont Blanc Tunnel. The road runs 208 kilometres (129 mi) through Bresse, the high southern...
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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, when...
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Brunost (section Brattli tunnel fire)
and was dubbed "the goat cheese fire". It was likened to the 1999 Mont Blanc tunnel fire, when a truck carrying margarine and flour caught fire. Kessel...
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Strasbourg – Mulhouse – Basel – Olten – Bern – Lausanne – Geneva – Mont Blanc Tunnel – Aosta – Ivrea – Vercelli – Alessandria – Genoa ... Bastia – Porto-Vecchio...
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the Gotthard Road Tunnel in Switzerland (17 km), the Mont Blanc Tunnel between France and Italy (11.6 km) and the Western Scheldt Tunnel (Dutch: Westerscheldetunnel)...
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town of Courmayeur with Pointe Helbronner on the southern side of the Mont Blanc massif. Taking over three years to construct, it opened in 2015 at a cost...
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mountaineering village in the French Alps, part of the commune of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, at an altitude of 1,252 m (4,108 ft). Argentière is located near the...
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Goûter Route (redirect from Modern normal route on the French side of Mont Blanc)
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 route...
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around Europe after fire devastated the Mont Blanc Tunnel under the Alps between France and Italy. The Tyne Tunnel was officially rated as "poor" and languished...
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Mont Blanc du Tacul (4,248 m) is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif of the French Alps situated midway between the Aiguille du Midi and Mont Blanc. The...
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Pierlucio Tinazzi (category Deaths on Mont Blanc)
the 1999 Mont Blanc tunnel fire. Tinazzi was on the French side of the tunnel, from where he donned breathing equipment and drove into the tunnel on his...
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