Mont Pinçon, Summit at Plessis-Grimoult, France

Mont Pinçon is a mountain in Normandy and the highest point in the Calvados department. The area features gentle rolling hills with views across the surrounding countryside from the summit.

The mountain played a key military role during the 1944 Battle of Normandy when Allied forces fought to control this strategic position. The fighting here was part of the broader campaign to break through German defenses.

The summit has long served as a landmark that people in the region use to orient themselves in the Norman landscape. It appears in local stories and memories as a defining feature of the territory.

The summit is reached by road and by footpaths through the Norman Switzerland countryside; the 216-metre tubular pylon and its low equipment building stand behind a metal fence at the top, so the mast itself cannot be approached. The site lies near Le Plessis-Grimoult, about 30 km south-west of Caen. The summit is exposed, with no shelter at the pylon.

A tall broadcast tower dominates the summit and is visible from across the region. The antenna was installed in 1956 and continues to transmit radio and television signals today.