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    La Meije is a mountain in the Massif des Écrins range, located at the border of the Hautes-Alpes and Isère départements. It overlooks the nearby village...
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    Association. It is a small ski resort in the French Alps, dominated by La Meije (3982 m). It was the birthplace of Nicolas de Nicolay; adventurer and Geographer...
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  • The Brèche de la Meije (el. 3357 m) is a high mountain pass in the Dauphiné Alps in Savoie in southeastern France. It is in the massif of Écrins in the...
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    La Meije, was even more daring. Edward Whymper, the man who had concert Matterhorn, had visited La Grave and declared La Meije unclimbable. La Meije was...
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    102 m La Meije 3,983 m Ailefroide 3,954 m Mont Pelvoux 3,946 m Pic Sans Nom 3,913 m Pic Gaspard 3,883 m Le Râteau 3,809 m Pic Coolidge 3,774 m La Grande...
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  • Sainte-Agnès Saorge Bouches-du-Rhône Les Baux-de-Provence Hautes-Alpes La Grave-la-Meije Saint-Véran Var Bargème Cotignac Gassin Le Castellet Seillans Tourtour...
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    mountain guides in the silver age of alpinism. He made the first ascent of La Meije (Massif des Écrins) on 16 August 1877 with his son and Emmanuel Boileau...
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    Dauphiné Alps La Meije seen from the Emparis plateau Highest point Peak Barre des Écrins Elevation 4,102 m (13,458 ft) Coordinates 44°55′23″N 6°21′36″E...
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    Briançon SNCF regional service near Gap Embrun Massif des Écrins La Grave La Meije The Alps and the Guil valley seen from Fort Mont-Dauphin Cantons of...
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    in honor of the celebrated L'Oisans guide Pierre Gaspard, conqueror of La Meije on 16 August 1877 in the company of Emmanuel Boileau de Castelnau. Pic...
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    Dolomites), but also in Switzerland and France, including the Matterhorn, La Meije and several first ascents. Dissatisfied with his life in Austria, he planned...
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    Barre des Écrins in the adjoining Hautes-Alpes department. The summit of La Meije at 3,988 metres (13,084 feet) is also well known. The Vercors Plateau aesthetically...
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  • Pennine Alps, Switzerland Mount Albert Edward 3,990 13,091 Papua New Guinea La Meije 3,987 13,081 Dauphiné Alps, France Wheeler Peak 3,982 13,064 Snake Range...
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    de la Meije. Tired of the bad weather that prevailed in Chamonix, the following year the two men engaged three guides in the valley and went to La Grave...
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    Tasker Emmanuel Boileau de Castelnau (1857–1923) France, first ascent La Meije with father and son Pierre Gaspard (1877) Jean-Marc Boivin (1951–1990)...
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    the city of Vienne, annexed in 1450 and the Turripinois around the city of La Tour-du-Pin. the County of Valentinois with the city of Valence, annexed in...
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    Ailefroide, 7 July 1870, with Christian Almer and Ulrich Almer Central peak of La Meije, 1870, with Meta Brevoort and three guides Unterbächhorn, 1872 First winter...
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    Between 1899 and 1904, she climbed a number of mountains, including the La Meije and Mont Blanc, and recorded 10 new paths or first ascents in the Bernese...
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    Alps (category CS1 Latin-language sources (la))
    climbed only much later, such at Mont Pelvoux (1848), Monte Viso (1861) and La Meije (1877). The first British Mont Blanc ascent by a man was in 1788; the first...
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    build on rock in front of the South face of La Meije. It's the starting point of the famous crossing of La Meije, which is known[according to whom?] to be...
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    in 1864 he made the first traverse of the brèche de la Meije and the first traverse of the col de la Pilatte (with Edward Whymper, Horace Walker, A. W....
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    which reaches a height of 4,088 metres, but the most symbolic peak is la Meije which is nicknamed the "Queen of the Oisans". The Oisans is a remarkable...
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    Montgenèvre. The Col is open all year round and provides good views of La Meije to the south-west and the Grand Galibier to the north. It is also well...
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  • Pelléas et Mélisande, at the Festival de la Meije, and his role in the premiere in Besançon of Offenbach's La Valse perdue (the lost Waltz). In concert...
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  • 2018-06-26. Tosi, Michèle. "Le piano selon Messiaen au pays de la Meije « Concerts « La Scène « ResMusica". www.resmusica.com. Retrieved 25 June 2018....
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  • Louvre in Paris, at the Festival de Beaune and at the Messiaen au pays de la Meije [fr], where she was invited by Pierre Boulez in 2012. She has also sung...
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    third highest peak in the Dauphiné Alps after the Barre des Écrins and La Meije. It lies at the south-western end of the Mont Pelvoux–Pic Sans Nom–Ailefroide...
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    roman de Gaspard de la Meije by Isabelle Scheibli. Tentatives d'Ascension au Pic Occidental de la Meije ou Aiguille du Midi de la Grave (Hautes-Alps)...
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  • Roche Méane (redirect from La roche Méane)
    located on the crest between Barre des Écrins (4,102 metres (13,458 ft)) and La Meije (3,983 metres (13,068 ft)). The west summit is 3,728 metres (12,231 ft)...
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  • in the Alps and Caucasus, p. 236. A. Carson Roberts, "Reminiscences of La Meije", Alpine Journal, Vol. 48 (1936), p. 245 Mummery, My Climbs in the Alps...
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