Tête de l'Aulp, Mountain summit in Manigod, France.
Tête de l'Aulp is a mountain summit in the French Alps sitting between the towns of Manigod and Ugine at 2129 meters high. The peak is reached by a series of walking paths that wind through mountain meadows and alpine terrain.
The name Tête de l'Aulp was formerly written Tête de l'Aup, and the summit reaches 2,129 metres in the Aravis range. It stands on the border of Savoie and Haute-Savoie, above the sources of the Fier in the Manigod valley to the west and the Val d'Arly near Crest-Voland to the east. Its southern ridge carries an antecime, La Rouelle, at 2,082 metres.
The summit stands on the line between Savoie and Haute-Savoie, and its name, formerly written tête de l'Aup, refers to the high alpine pasture. The mountain overlooks the sources of the Fier above the Manigod valley, where the slopes below the peak have long been grazed as summer pasture.
The summit sits on the Savoie–Haute-Savoie border, above the Fier sources west and the Val d'Arly near Crest-Voland east. The southern ridge carries La Rouelle, a 2,082 m sub-peak, and the path shown on the lower right slope is the usual line of approach. No lift serves the mountain; the climb is on foot, so check snow cover on the upper grass and scree before setting out.
From the summit you can see two different valleys below: the Fier valley to the west and the Val d'Arly to the east. This location offers views across two separate French administrative regions.
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