Glacier Blanc
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The Glacier Blanc is a glacier in the French département of Hautes-Alpes. Its name derives from the fact that – unlike the nearby Glacier Noir – its surface appears pristinely white due to an absence
The Glacier Blanc seen from the Dôme de Neige des Écrins (4,015 m)
The meltwater exit of the Glacier Blanc
Barre des Écrins (4,102 m) in Hautes Alpes, France and the Glacier Blanc
The snout of the Glacier Blanc in 2004
Ailefroide
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The Ailefroide is a mountain in the Massif des Écrins in the French Alps, and is the third highest peak in the Dauphiné Alps after the Barre des Écrins and La Meije. It lies at the south-western end o
Glacier Blanc
…the Durance, and finally the Rhône into the Mediterranean Sea. From Pré de Madame Carle and its Refuge Cézanne hut, where the road from the village of Ailefroide in the Vallouise ends at a large car park, a popular alpine walking trail runs up to the Refuge du Glacier Blanc (2,542 m), from where the glacier is…
North face of the Ailefroide above the southern branch of the Glacier Noir, seen from the Col de la Temple (3322m)