Les Courtes, Mountain summit in Haute-Savoie, France.

Les Courtes is a mountain summit in the Mont Blanc massif that rises to 3,856 meters. Its north-facing side features steep granite walls and sharp ridges positioned between the Talèfre and Argentière glacier basins.

The first recorded ascent was on 4 August 1876, when Henri Cordier, Thomas Middlemore, John Oakley Maund, Jakob Anderegg, Johann Jaun and Andreas Maurer climbed the north side by the Cordier route. The present normal route was first climbed on 17 August 1897 by O. Schuster and A. Swaine. The north-east face was first climbed on 12 August 1930 by P. Chavalier and G. Labour, followed by the Swiss route in July 1938 and the north-east pillar in July 1939.

Gaston Rébuffat's 100 plus belles courses du massif du Mont-Blanc lists the north-east face at no. 29, the Courtes traverse at no. 38, the north-north-east central spur at no. 76 and the north face at no. 94. The name means "the short ones" in French, though the summit reaches 3,856 m. The normal route via the col de la Tour des Courtes was first climbed by O. Schuster and A. Swaine on 17 August 1897.

The normal route starts from the Refuge du Couvercle (2,687 m), crosses the Glacier de Talèfre and climbs steep firn slopes to the Col de la Tour des Courtes (3,720 m), then follows the west-northwest ridge to the summit. It is rated PD with ice up to 45°. The southeast ridge from the Col des Cristaux (3,601 m) is also PD and can be reached from either the Couvercle or Argentière refuge. The north-face routes are accessed from the Refuge d'Argentière (2,771 m).

The first recorded ascent, on 4 August 1876, was made by Henri Cordier, Thomas Middlemore, John Oakley Maund, Jakob Anderegg, Johann Jaun and Andreas Maurer via the north-side Cordier Route. Crystal hunters may have reached the summit years earlier from the south-west. The north-east face was first climbed on 12 August 1930 by P. Chavalier and G. Labour.