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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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 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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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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(Moon) Tête Rousse Glacier Mont Blanc massif Mont Blanc Tramway Mont Blanc Tunnel Tour du Mont Blanc Top of the Mont Blanc List of Alpine four-thousanders...
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The Aiguille du Midi (French pronunciation: [eɡɥij dy midi], "Needle at midday") is a 3,842-metre-tall (12,605 ft) mountain in the Mont Blanc massif within...
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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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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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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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Mont Maudit (4,465 m) is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in France and Italy. The French name literally means "Cursed Mountain". Until the end of...
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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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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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Accidentology of the normal route up Mont Blanc between 1990 and 2017 Rockfalls in the Grand Couloir du Goûter (Mont-Blanc massif) : An interdisciplinary monitoring...
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The Dôme du Goûter (4,304 m) is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif. It is a shoulder of Mont Blanc, whose summit lies two kilometres to the south-east...
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Goûter Route (redirect from Modern normal route on the French side of Mont Blanc)
attempt to reach Mont Blanc's summit in 1786. However, the first complete ascent of the mountain the via the Aiguille du Goûter, the Dôme du Goûter and L'Arête...
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create the GDF-Suez group which became Engie in 2015 2010 Merger of the two tunnel boring companies SFTRF and ATMB Transformation of La Poste into a public...
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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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a long crossing of the Glacier du Gèant. The refuge lies nearly directly above the 11.6 km (7.2 mi) Mont Blanc Tunnel, which passes deep underground,...
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Castaner est nommé Président du conseil d’administration d’Autoroutes et Tunnel du Mont Blanc Autoroutes et tunnel du Mont-Blanc (ATMB), press release of...
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access to the Italian side of the Mont Blanc massif and a link via the Vallée Blanche Aerial Tramway to the Aiguille du Midi, from where a separate cable...
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Mont Dolent (3,823 metres (12,543 ft)) is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif and lies on the border between Italy, Switzerland and France. As a mountain...
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The Aiguille 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...
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Mont Blanc de Courmayeur (French: [mɔ̃ blɑ̃ də kuʁmajœʁ]; Italian: Monte Bianco di Courmayeur) is a point (4,748 m (15,577 ft)) on the south-east ridge...
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Ferret which forms part of the 170 kilometres (110 mi) circular Tour du Mont Blanc route. Access to Col Ferret is forbidden for private motor vehicles...
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Nid d'Aigle station (redirect from Gare du Nid d'Aigle)
Gare du Nid d'Aigle (French: Eagle's Nest Station) is the terminus of the Tramway du Mont Blanc (TMB) from Saint-Gervais-les-Bains on the slopes of the...
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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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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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Plaidoyer pour l’avenir 1965 : De la Savoie au Val d’Aoste par le tunnel du Mont-Blanc 1968 : Simples propos 1968 : Le pari européen (with Michel Drancourt)...
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Jacques Balmat (French pronunciation: [ʒak balma]), called Balmat du Mont Blanc (1762–1834) was a mountaineer, a Savoyard mountain guide, born in the...
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