Lonely peak Mont Aiguille
I saw this picture here on the internet with the caption "Somewhere in France ...". But we are together with you is not enough! Really? We need all the details, from all sides, and even to "get into it" is desirable. So let's learn something interesting and we will look into my eyes.
Mont Egil, in English Mont Aiguille - a small peak, located in the northern mid-latitudes of the eastern hemisphere, at coordinates 44.8333 ° North latitude, 5.55 ° East longitude. The geographic location of the vertex is characterized by: Eurasia (Europe), Western Alps, Dauphine Alps.
Mont Aiguille - "Unattainable Mountain", a height of two thousand meters, which sticks out like a thumb, with the same steep walls on all sides. this mountain long fired the imagination of the French, and at the request of Charles VIII, it was the first climbing tall - the first mountain on which people decide to climb just out of curiosity. The top was not subdued until one thousand four hundred and ninety-two. The first ascent was involved, except the royal ratification still Rockshaper, carpenter, and two priests - just in case - and suddenly the truth is on this mountain God sits, legs dangling?
It happened June 26, 1492, the year Columbus discovered America, and Rabelais then described it in his fourth book.
It happened June 26, 1492, the year Columbus discovered America, and Rabelais then described it in his fourth book.
In terms of weather conditions rise to the top is best to plan for July, August, September. The top of this level as Mont Egil in any case requires serious organized climbing. To address the full range of logistics and organizational matters may take seriously local knowledge. Likely to require an organization the camps, but much of the route is already shaping can be completed within one or two days of the assault.
Writes la_marmotte now climb the mountain of the unattainable is not so difficult. have routes already hammered rings for equipment, they can choose the level of difficulty of climbing III-IV, V + is the most popular and up to VII. ie, you can easily get into even the novice, but experience! but I'm not mentally ready - vertigo is still with me. in fact, the right side of the mountain was a sheer, even hanging and fallen off recently - after the war. so that the impression was once more impressive, and the mountain lost 10 meters high - it was the highest point.
Die, Dea Augusta Vicontiorum - town in the French department of Drôme (in Dauphin), in the valley Droma, partly surrounded by old walls and towers. Residents (in 1891, 3257) are engaged in silkworm cultivation of grapes and melons, paper, leather, silk fabrics and are a significant trade of wine, wood and animals, especially mules. Old Castle, the former bishop's palace, and some remains from the Roman times. Prior to the abolition of the Edict of Nantes was a university here Calvinists. In the vicinity of AD are rock crystal and see mineral springs. At 10 km there are the so-called Inaccessible mountain (Mont inaccessible) and Mont-Egil (Mont-Aiguille), in the form of the inverted pyramid.
