The Mer de Glace ("Sea of Ice") is a valley glacier located on the northern slopes of the Mont Blanc massif, in the French Alps. It is 7.5 km long and...
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Mer de Glace: opera in two acts with prologue was a 1986–1991 work by Australian composer Richard Meale, with a libretto by David Malouf. It is an adaptation...
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Mont Blanc massif (redirect from Jardin de Talèfre)
large proportion of the massif is covered by glaciers, which include the Mer de Glace and the Miage Glacier – the longest glaciers in France and Italy, respectively...
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a connection with the SNCF, in Chamonix, to the Hotel de Montenvers station, at the Mer de Glace, at an altitude of 1,913 m (6,276 ft). The line is 5.1 km...
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western Alps and that of the southern Alps. Climatic conditions on the Mer de Glace are similar to those found on the northern side of the Swiss Alps.: 26 ...
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Aiguille du Midi (redirect from Aiguille de midi)
Aiguille du Plan, either returning to the cable car or descending the Mer de Glace from the 'Plan' to the Requin Hut or continuing to Montenvers. Mont Blanc...
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Glacier Montanvert (section Voyages Dans les Alpes, Précédés d’un Essai sur l’Histoire Naturelle des Environs de Geneve by Horace-Bénedict De Saussure)
in the 18th century for a portion of the Alps glacier, now known as Mer de Glace, on the northern slopes of the Mont Blanc massif. Alternative spellings...
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Englishmen who visited the Mer de Glace in 1741. In 1742 came P. Martel and several other Genevese, in 1760 Horace Bénédict de Saussure, as well as rather...
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adjacent to the station of the Chemin de fer du Montenvers, which operates a rack railway to the Mer de Glace. As of the December 2020 timetable change...
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Mont Blanc (4,810 m) Aiguille du Dru (3,754 m) Aiguille Verte (4,122 m) Mer de Glace, Dent du Géant (4,013 m) and Grandes Jorasses (4,208 m) in Chamonix (c...
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