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The following is a sortable table of the 37 peaks of continental France with a topographical prominence of at least 1,000 metres (3,300 ft). This table includes all Ultras with prominence of at least 1,500 m (4,900 ft) within continental France.
While some of the ranges of the French Alps are entirely in France, others, such as the Mont Blanc massif, are shared with Switzerland and Italy. At 4,808 metres (15,774 ft), Mont Blanc, on the France–Italy border, is the highest mountain in the Alps, and the highest Western European mountain. [1]
All such mountains are located in France, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany or Slovenia, even in some lower regions. Together, these lists include all 44 ultra-prominent peaks of the Alps , with 19 ultras over 3000m on this page.
Pennine Alps Pic Lory: France 4086 m Dauphiné Alps Dent d'Hérens Gendarme Crochu Switzerland 4075 m Pennine Alps Pilier du Diable: France 4067 m Mont Blanc Massif Terzo pilastro del Col Maudit: France 4064 m Pennine Alps Pointe Bravais: France 4057 m Mont Blanc Massif Pic Eccles: Italy 4041 m Mont Blanc Massif Dent d'Hérens, L'Epaule Italy ...
For a list by height, see the list of mountains of the Alps. By descending to 1,500 m of prominence, this list includes all the Ultras of the Alps. Some famous peaks, such as the Matterhorn and Eiger, are not Ultras because they are connected to higher mountains by high cols and therefore do not achieve enough topographic prominence.
The Alps extend in an arc from France in the south and west to Slovenia in the east, and from Monaco in the south to Germany in the north. The Alps are a crescent shaped geographic feature of central Europe that ranges in an 800 km (500 mi) arc (curved line) from east to west and is 200 km (120 mi) in width.