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Mont Blanc and Its History

It’s imposing, extremely tall, and admired by all for its beauty. We’re talking about the Mont Blanc massif and a history that’s been in the making for millions of years.
The Mont Blanc massif is located between the territories of Italy and France.
In the Valle d’Aosta region of Italy it dominates the Veny and Ferret valleys. In France, in the Savoy region, it encompasses the valley of Chamonix, all the way to the Canton Vallese in Switzerland, near Martigny.

The mountain chain of which it’s a part is 40 km long, from 8 to 15 km wide, and occupies a surface area of roughly 645 square kilometres.

Mont Blanc’s elevation is 4,808.72 meters.

The French and Swiss sides belong to the hydrographical basin of the Rhone River, while the Italian side is in the hydrographical basin of the Po.

The geological evolution of Mont Blanc is composed of 3 great periods:

between 500 to 250 million years ago, during Hercynian orogeny, the crystalline core was formed, which is the base of the current Mont Blanc;

between 250 and 60 million years ago the mountain was still sunken at a depth of dozens of meters beneath the sea;

30 million years ago, during the Tertiary Period, following the push of the African and Asian tectonic plates the mountain chain of the Alps was formed, with Mont Blanc’s emergence from the ocean along with 24 other peaks over 4,000 meters tall.

THE MASSIF AND ITS ROCKS

The Mont Blanc massif is composed of a granitic core around which can be found metamorphic rocks such as gneiss, mica schists and limestone schists.

The granite is recognisable by the gargoyle-like shape of its crests and the sharp forms of its peaks. This rock is quite hard, but is subject to the effects of erosion provoked by glaciers.

Around the granite, in certain place, we find metamorphic rocks: in those parts, protected by a shell of gneiss, the forms are more rounded and continuous. It is here that the typical paths to the summit have been traced.

At the base of the granitic and metamorphic rocks, on the other hand, we find undifferentiated sedimentary rocks.

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The three towns and their communes which surround Mont Blanc are Courmayeur in Aosta Valley, Italy; and Saint-Gervais-les-Bains and Chamonix in Haute-Savoie, France.

Skyway Monte Bianco is a cable car in the Alps, linking the Italian town of Courmayeur with Pointe Helbronner on the southern side of the Mont Blanc massif. Taking over three years to construct, it opened in 2015 at a cost of 110 million euros, and is considered to be the world’s most expensive cable car installation.

The Vallée Blanche Cable Car (Funivia dei Ghiacciai-Télécabine Panoramicò Mont-Blanc) is a passager cable car linkino a Mountain Peak above Courmayeur(Italy) to a peak above Chamonix (France) by passing over the Mont Blanc massif, in the Alps. The engineering was developed by Vittorio Zignoli of Polytechnic University of Turin. After a construction period of four years, it began service in 1958.
The cable car connects the peaks of Aiguille du Midi (3778 m - 12,395 ft) and Pointe Helbronner, over a distance of some 5 km (3.1 mi). This tourist attraction spans the valleys between the two peaks, high above the Mont Blanc Tunnel, which carries automotive passenger and freight traffic under the two peaks.

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La Skyway is the cable car that goes up from the town of Courmayeur at about 1500 meters above sea level and reaches the 3500 meters of Punta Helbronner arriving directly in the heart of the Mont Blanc glacier.

Many have called it the eighth wonder of the world but we prefer to define it the perfect meeting point between human genius and the spectacle of nature. Those who arrive at the foot of the skyway already begin to understand the effort behind one of the greatest engineering works ever made in human history.

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