Grandes Jorasses
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The Grandes Jorasses is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif, on the boundary between Haute-Savoie in France and Aosta Valley in Italy.
North face of the Grandes Jorasses and the Leschaux Glacier (September 2000)
Aiguille du Dru in 2006
The six great north faces of the Alps are a group of vertical faces in the Swiss, French, and Italian Alps known in alpine climbing for their technical difficulty, high level of objective danger, and
Grandes Jorasses
…Pointe Young (3,996 m; 13,110 ft) – named after Geoffrey Winthrop Young Located on the French side of the mountain, the north face is one of the three great north faces of the Alps, along with the north faces of the Eiger and the Matterhorn (known as 'the Trilogy'). One of the most famous walls in the Alps, it towers 1200 m (3,900…
The north face of the Eiger
North face of the Matterhorn