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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.
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).
Thus the passes which crossed a single ridge, and did not involve too great a detour through a long valley of approach, became the most important and the most popular, e.g. the Mont Cenis, the Great St Bernard, the St Gotthard, the Septimer and the Brenner. [3] As time went on the Alpine passes were improved to make travel easier.
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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 ...
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
Painted wall of the old Swiss Customs depicting smuggling across the Great Saint Bernard Pass As of 2010 [update] , Bourg-Saint-Pierre had an unemployment rate of 1.7%. As of 2008 [update] , there were 3 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 2 businesses involved in this sector.
Great St Bernard Lake (French: Lac du Grand St-Bernard, Italian: Lago del Gran San Bernardo) is a mountain lake of the Pennine Alps, located south-west of Great St Bernard Pass. It is divided between Switzerland (canton of Valais ) and Italy (region of Aosta Valley ), although it lies south of the Alps , within the Dora Baltea basin.