The Mer de Glace ("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...
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Mer de Glace: opera in two acts with prologue was a 1986–1991 work by Australian composer Richard Meale, with a libretto by David Malouf. It is an adaptation...
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a connection with the SNCF, in Chamonix, to the Hotel de Montenvers station, at the Mer de Glace, at an altitude of 1,913 m (6,276 ft). The line is 5.1 km...
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Déplacements actuels et futurs sur la glace de mer: Resolute. Ottawa: Canadian Ice Service = Service Canadien des glaces, 2007. ISBN 978-0-662-49881-0 Lahoutifard...
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Glacier Montanvert (section Voyages Dans les Alpes, Précédés d’un Essai sur l’Histoire Naturelle des Environs de Geneve by Horace-Bénedict De Saussure)
in the 18th century for a portion of the Alps glacier, now known as Mer de Glace, on the northern slopes of the Mont Blanc massif. Alternative spellings...
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Arveyron is a left tributary to the river Arve, rising in the famous Mer de Glace just above Chamonix in south-eastern France. It flows into the Arve in...
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Refuge de la Charpoua) is a refuge in the Mont Blanc massif in the Alps. Built in 1904 , it is located above the north bank of the Mer de Glace under the...
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Alps. It is the main supplier of ice (via the Vallée Blanche) to the Mer de Glace which flows down towards Montenvers. It gets its name from the nearby...
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the French side, to the north is the Géant Glacier which overlooks the Mer de Glace. The pass is between the peaks of the Tour Ronde and the Dent du Géant...
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the Mont Blanc Massif of the French Alps. It is located between the Mer de Glace and Argentiere Glacier, and can be climbed from the Grands Montets cable...
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receives water from the many glaciers of the Chamonix valley (mainly the Mer de Glace) before flowing north-west into the Rhône on the west side of Geneva...
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Englishmen who visited the Mer de Glace in 1741. In 1742 came P. Martel and several other Genevese, in 1760 Horace Bénédict de Saussure, as well as rather...
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mountain guide and who led the writer Alexandre Dumas on a journey to the Mer de Glace, accompanied by the young Venance. Payot died in Chamonix on March 13...
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L'ascension de la Jungfrau, effectuée le 28 Août 1841, par Agassiz, Forbes, du Chatelier et Desor, précédée du récit de leur traversée de la mer de glace, du...
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adjacent to the station of the Chemin de fer du Montenvers, which operates a rack railway to the Mer de Glace. As of the December 2020 timetable change...
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Journal de Dimanche (in French). Retrieved 2023-04-11. Fuligni, Bruno (2008-08-20). "Voyage dans les microlangues : 2. Pour rompre la glace, parlez taafien"...
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Festival for Les Guerriers de Glace Le Cabinet chinois, La boîte à bulles, coll. « Contre-jour », 2003 La Guilde de la mer, La boîte à bulles, coll. « Clef...
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Mont Blanc massif (redirect from Jardin de Talèfre)
large proportion of the massif is covered by glaciers, which include the Mer de Glace and the Miage Glacier – the longest glaciers in France and Italy, respectively...
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Les filles de Belgrade ne m’ont jamais aimé, Éditions de la Table ronde 1993: Le sourire de l’accordéoniste, Table ronde 1995: Luciole de glace, Table ronde...
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Leschaux Hut (redirect from Refuge de Leschaux)
m on the north side of the Glacier de Leschaux – a tributary of the Mer de Glace. It is owned by the CAF and can accommodate up to 19 people. The hut...
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Mont Blanc (4,810 m) Aiguille du Dru (3,754 m) Aiguille Verte (4,122 m) Mer de Glace, Dent du Géant (4,013 m) and Grandes Jorasses (4,208 m) in Chamonix (c...
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Melbourne spring racing carnival he rode the Japanese-trained horses Mer De Glace and Lys Gracieux in their respective Caulfield Cup and W. S. Cox Plate...
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western Alps and that of the southern Alps. Climatic conditions on the Mer de Glace are similar to those found on the northern side of the Swiss Alps.: 26 ...
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Aiguille du Midi (redirect from Aiguille de midi)
Aiguille du Plan, either returning to the cable car or descending the Mer de Glace from the 'Plan' to the Requin Hut or continuing to Montenvers. Mont Blanc...
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the would-be Siegfried of Mer de glace is reduced to moral nullity by his failure to take responsibility. When Mer de glace was written Mahler was at...
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is the starting point of a ski run via the Glacier du Géant and the Mer de Glace to Montenvers and Chamonix. The mountain is the starting point of various...
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Pierre-Jean de Béranger. (with A. Hervé) Voyages dans les glaces du Pôle arctique à la recherche du passage Nord-ouest: extraits des relations de Sir John...
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valley. Such truncated spurs can be found in mountainous regions. The Mer de Glace, in the European Alps, is a valley through which a glacier currently...
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in two world premieres of new Australian operas: Clare Clairmont in Mer de glace, with music by Richard Meale and libretto by David Malouf. The production...
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for Mayakovsky 1991: Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature for Mer de Glace 2002–2003: Royal Literary Fund Fellowship Smile, Smile, Smile, Smile...
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