Contents Index

aiguilles

Literally needles: the term applies to the smaller pinnacles that rise in the periphery of Mont Blanc.

These, for example, are the Aiguille Verte (l.) and Aiguille du Dru (r.).

[PHOTO]

From Walter Woodburn Hyde, "The Ascent of Mont Blanc," in National Geographic, 24:8 (1913), 861-942.