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The Great St Bernard Pass is located near the western end of the Valais Alps, the next pass to the west, Col Ferret, marking the transition with the Mont Blanc massif.In that area, between Mont Dolent and Mont Vélan, the main crest of the Alps barely reaches 3,000 metres, unlike in the much higher section of the Valais Alps east of Mont Vélan and Grand Combin.
As late as 1905, the highest pass over the main chain that had a carriage road was the Great St Bernard (2,472 m (8,111 ft)), but three still higher passes over side ridges have roads—the col de l'Iseran, the Stelvio Pass (2,760 m (9,040 ft)), the Col du Galibier (2,658 m (8,721 ft)), in the Dauphiné Alps, and the Umbrail Pass (2,512 m ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Great St Bernard Pass; San Bernardino Pass; ... Croce Domini Pass; Col de la Croix (Vaud)
The Great St Bernard Tunnel (French: Tunnel du Grand Saint-Bernard, Italian: Traforo del Gran San Bernardo, German: Grosser-Sankt-Bernhard-Tunnel) is a road tunnel complementing the Great St Bernard Pass, linking Martigny (in the Swiss canton of Valais) with Saint-Rhémy-en-Bosses (in the Aosta Valley, in north western Italy).
St Bernard Pass may refer to: Great St Bernard Pass crosses the Valais Alps between Martigny, Switzerland and Aosta, Italy Little St Bernard Pass lies between Mont Blanc and the Graian Alps, connecting Bourg St Maurice, France to Courmayeur, Italy
The protagonist of the first successful ascent of the Velan was a priest of the Great St Bernard Hospice, Laurent Joseph Murith. He had been born in the nearby village of Sembrancher in 1742 and had taken holy orders in 1776. Murith, besides being an ecclesiastic, was a scientist, and was the author of a botanical handbook to the Valais.
Great St Bernard to the Swiss Val Ferret bridle path 2,699 8,855 Bettaforca Pass [3] (Bättforko) Ayas to Gressoney-La-Trinité bridle path 2,676 8,780 Col Serena Great St Bernard to Morgex: footpath 2,538 8,327 Col Ferret: Courmayeur to Orsières bridle path 2,533 8,311 Col de Valdobbia Gressoney to the Val Sesia: bridle path 2,479 8,134 Great ...
Bourg-Saint-Pierre (French pronunciation: [buʁ sɛ̃ pjɛʁ]; Arpitan: Lo Bôrg) is a municipality in the district of Entremont in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.Bourg-Saint-Pierre is the highest inhabited locality of the valley and the last village when ascending the Great Saint Bernard Pass.