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The Aiguille du Midi (French pronunciation: [eɡɥij dy midi], "Needle at midday" [2]) 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 be directly accessed by cable car from Chamonix that takes visitors close to Mont Blanc.
Download as PDF; Printable version ... Panorama of the Aiguilles Rouges and the Arve Valley from the Aiguille du Midi. Main summits. L'aiguille du Belvédère (2,965 ...
The Aiguille du Midi Cable Car in Chamonix attracts 500,000 people each year and gives views over much of the massif, and up towards Mont Blanc itself. From Chamonix it rises to the summit of the Aiguille du Midi at 3,842 metres (12,605 ft), and holds the world record for the highest vertical ascent of any cable car (2,807 m (9,209 ft)).
This is a route-map template for the Canal du Midi, a waterway which extends from Toulouse, near the Iberian Peninsula, down to Étang de Thau, at the Mediterranean Sea in France. For a key to symbols, see {{ waterways legend }} .
The cabins run from the Aiguille du Midi station (3,778 m (12,395 ft) elevation) across a span of 1,684 m (5,525 ft) over Vallée Blanche, a glacier and snow valley, to the Gros Rognon station (3,536 m (11,601 ft)). The Gros Rognon station is not a passenger station—it contains the counterweights of the fixed cables and the rails bending the ...
Typical lock keeper's house on the Canal du Midi. The Canal du Midi was built between 1666 and 1681 by Pierre-Paul Riquet to provide an inland water route through Southern France between the Atlantic at Bordeaux and the Mediterranean at Sète via the Garonne.
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The Aiguille de Toule (3,534 metres (11,594 ft)) is a mountain peak in the Mont Blanc massif of the Alps. Its summit is one of a number which form part of the mountainous frontier ridge between France and Italy which descends eastwards from Mont Blanc and continues towards the Grandes Jorasses and Mont Dolent .