Rhêmes-Golette Glacier, Cross-border glacier in Tignes and Rhêmes-Notre-Dame, France and Italy

The Rhêmes-Golette Glacier is a body of ice straddling the border between France and Italy high in the Alpine range. The landscape around it features steep slopes, rocky ridges, and the pale ice surface stretching across the mountain pass.

The glacier's upper ice lies alternately in France and Italy depending on how the border is read: Italian maps draw an arc between the Pic de Golette and the Pic de la Traversière, while the French reading runs east to the foot of the Granta Parey, a summit entirely in Italy, before turning straight to the Pointe de la Golette. The lower tongue is on French soil above the Chevril and Sassière lakes, in the upper Grande Sassière national nature reserve.

The glacier lies in the upper part of the Grande Sassière national nature reserve on the French side, above the Chevril and Sassière lakes. On the Italian side it connects to the Golette glacier, which descends toward the Rhêmes valley, a side valley of the Aosta Valley, and feeds the lake of the same name.

The glacier lies above the Chevril and Sassière lakes in Tignes, in the upper part of the Grande Sassière national nature reserve. On the Italian side it connects to the Golette glacier, which feeds the lake of the same name in the Rhêmes valley. The boundary between the two countries is not fixed on the upper ice: the French and Italian readings of the line differ between the Golette and Traversière peaks.

The border between France and Italy is not fixed along the ice: the upper part of the glacier lies sometimes in France, sometimes in Italy, depending on how the frontier line is read. Italian maps carry the line in an arc between the Pic de Golette and the Pic de la Traversière; the alternative reading runs to the foot of the Granta Parey, a summit entirely in Italy, before heading straight for the Pointe de la Golette.