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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.
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)). [5]
Chamonix is known as the "Gateway to the European Cascades." The Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc has been held every August since 2003. There is a cable car up to the 3,842 m (12,605 ft) Aiguille du Midi. Constructed in 1955, it was then the highest cable car in the world [15] and remains the highest vertical ascent cable car in the world. [16]
Aiguille du Midi: France: Chamonix: none: 2867 m: 2500 m? 1955: 2nd Section Vallee Blanche Aerial Tramway: France: Mont Blanc: none: 2831 m: 2830 m: appr. 300 m: 1958: Rock anchored support structure; main span is almost horizontal Pic du Midi - Taoulet cable car: France: Pic du Midi de Bigorre: none: 2628 m: 2580 m? 1998 [4] [5] 3S Aerial ...
Aiguille d'Argentière above the Saleina Glacier Aiguille du Midi. Name metres feet Mont Blanc: 4,810.45 [3] 15,782 Mont Maudit: 4,471 14,669 Dôme du Goûter: 4,331 ...
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 ...
Pointe Helbronner is also served by the Vallee Blanche Aerial Tramway, which crosses from the peak to the nearby peak of Aiguille du Midi in France—a peak-to-peak distance of 5 km (3.1 mi). This, in turn, gives access to the French Téléphérique de l'Aiguille du Midi , the cable car connecting Aiguille du Midi to the French village of ...
The tunnel passes almost exactly under the summit of the Aiguille du Midi. At this spot, it lies 2,480 metres (8,140 ft) beneath the surface, making it the world's second deepest operational tunnel [3] after the Gotthard Base Tunnel. The Mont Blanc Tunnel was originally managed by the two building companies.