Aiguille de la Bérangère, Mountain summit in Les Contamines-Montjoie, France.
The Aiguille de la Bérangère is a 3,425-metre mountain of the Trélatête massif in the Graian Alps, in Haute-Savoie, near the Italian border. It stands on the ridge running south-west from the Dômes de Miage, from which the Col de la Bérangère (3,348 m) separates it; it is sometimes counted among the Dômes peaks.
The Aiguille de la Bérangère lies on the ridge that descends south-west from the Dômes de Miage, in the Trélatête massif of the Graian Alps, close to the Italian border. The Col de la Bérangère (3,348 m) separates it from the Dômes, and the mountain is sometimes counted among those summits. The usual ascent starts at the Rifugio des Conscrits (2,580 m).
The peak lies on the ridge running southwest from the Dômes de Miage, and is sometimes counted among the Dômes summits; the Col de la Bérangère at 3,348 m separates it from them. Climbers based at the Rifugio des Conscrits (2,580 m) use the mountain as a stage on this ridge, and the Italian name Bérangère is used alongside the French form.
Access begins from Cugnon parking lot with a four-hour hike to Conscrits refuge at 2,602 meters, requiring crampons, ice axes, avalanche safety equipment, and physical preparation for the eight-hour round-trip technical ascent.
The Aiguille de la Bérangère is sometimes counted among the Dômes de Miage, from which the Col de la Bérangère (3,348 m) separates it. The peak lies on the ridge descending south-west from those domes, in the Trélatête massif of the Graian Alps, near the Italian border.
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