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    The Glacier Blanc is a glacier in the French département of Hautes-Alpes. Its name (which means "white glacier") derives from the fact that – unlike the...
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    the glaciers and mountains were "discovered" by the outside world in the 18th century. Word of these impressive sights began to spread, and Mont Blanc was...
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    Route Mont Blanc (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...
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    the Glacier Blanc. The mountain is surrounded by four glaciers: to the north-west is the Bonne Pierre glacier, to the north-east the Glacier Blanc, to...
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    for example, its neighbour, the Glacier Blanc ("white glacier"). Until at least 1866 the Glacier Noir and Glacier Blanc were combined into a single glacial...
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    avalanches, poches d'eau". www.glaciers-climat.fr. Retrieved 23 February 2016. New Stadler built trains for Mont Blanc tramway The Railway Magazine issue...
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    Mer de Glace (category Glaciers of Metropolitan France)
    [mɛʁ də ɡlas], lit. '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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    023 m Aiguille de Cedera 2,883 m Grun de Saint Maurice 2,776 m Glacier Blanc Glacier Noir "Les 7 grandes vallées du massif", on ecrins-parcnational.fr...
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    Bossons Glacier du Peclet Glacier de Saint Sorlin, Glacier de l'Etendard Glacier de Gebroulaz Glacier de Sarennes Glacier Noir Glacier Blanc Glacier des Glaciers...
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    of the mighty north face of the Barre des Écrins and towers over the Glacier Blanc. The mountain lies inside the Écrins National Park. It is a popular...
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    The Tête Rousse Glacier (French: Glacier de Tête Rousse) is a small but significant glacier located in the Mont Blanc massif within the French Alps whose...
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    Brenva Glacier (French: Glacier de la Brenva, Italian: Ghiacciaio della Brenva) is a valley glacier, located on the southern side of the Mont Blanc massif...
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    Glacier, Italy". earth.esa.int. European Space Agency. Retrieved 10 November 2015. Deline, P. (2005). "Change in surface debris cover on Mont Blanc massif...
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    The Bossons Glacier is one of the larger glaciers of the Mont Blanc massif of the Alps, found in the Chamonix valley of Haute-Savoie département, south-eastern...
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    Jorasses in the Mont Blanc massif of the Alps. It is located above the hamlet of Planpincieux, Val Ferret, in the Aosta Valley. The glacier has a length of...
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    the Glacier Blanc. Access usually is from the village of Ailefroide in the French Alps and a 2-hour hike further than the Refuge du Glacier Blanc. The...
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    the Mont-Blanc massif, an anti-clockwise start in Chamonix would lead through the Chamonix (or Arve) valley, then Montjoie, Vallée des Glaciers, Italian...
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    investigations on glaciers". Journal of Glaciology. Special issue (S1): 4–5. Bibcode:1987JGlac..33S...4C. doi:10.3189/S0022143000215785. "Moulin 'Blanc': NASA Expedition...
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    The Argentière Glacier is a glacier in the French Alps. It is one of the larger glaciers found within the Mont Blanc massif, and is situated above the...
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    several variations) undertaken on foot or by ski touring between the Mont Blanc in Chamonix, France, and the Matterhorn, in Zermatt, Switzerland. First...
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    Findel Glacier Zmutt Glacier Zinal Glacier Otemma Glacier Allalin Glacier Ferpècle Glacier Fee Glacier Mont Miné Glacier Ried Glacier Turtmann Glacier Moiry...
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    mountains in the Dauphiné Alps is limited by the erosion caused by small glaciers, causing a topographic effect called the glacial buzzsaw. The chief peaks...
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    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 the...
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    Air India Flight 101 (category Mont Blanc)
    Mont Blanc". CNN. 7 December 2021. Archived from the original on 9 December 2021. Retrieved 7 December 2021. "Un trésor, découvert sur un glacier du massif...
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  • northern slopes of the Mont Blanc massif. Alternative spellings of Montanvert include Montainvert and Montvers. The Glacier Montanvert was a popular tourist...
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    2292–2301. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2011.04.029. "Moulin 'Blanc': NASA Expedition Probes Deep Within a Greenland Glacier". Earth Observatory. NASA. Dec 11, 2006. Archived...
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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 can...
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    Mont Blanc Tramway or by foot. From here, climbers hike to and then ascend a lateral moraine to the Tête Rousse Hut and the Tête Rousse Glacier. After...
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    Valais, Pierre Blanc, Justin Blanc and Jean Perrin, attempts Kamet by Slingsby's route, and also later explores the Raikhana glacier system to the east...
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    can be conceived, but in the direction of the Glacier de l'Encula, as the upper part of the Glacier Blanc is named on the French map, the slopes are less...
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