Becca di Luseney, Mountain summit in Aosta Valley, Italy
Becca di Luseney is a 3,504-metre summit in the Pennine Alps of Aosta Valley, Italy. It has a pyramidal profile on all four sides, and a glacier covers its north face. The mountain sits on the watershed between the Valpelline, Valtournenche and Saint-Barthélemy valleys.
The first recorded ascent of Becca di Luseney was made in 1866. On 8 June 1952 a mass of debris broke loose from the west-southwest face between 2,900 and 3,200 metres, killing four men and burying the hamlet of Chamin in Valpelline. A chapel now stands where Chamin was, and the scar of the landslide is still visible on the mountain's flank.
A chapel stands at the former location of Chamain village to commemorate the four individuals who perished during the 1952 rockfall disaster.
Two approach lines exist. From the Vallone di Saint-Barthélemy the route crosses the whole valley via the Reboulaz bivouac. From Valpelline, a path climbs past the old Praz-de-Dieu alpeggi and the Luseney glacier to the Colle di Luseney (3,162 m), then follows rock steps and glacial remnants to the top; the Chentre-Bionaz bivouac, opened in 2010 by the Bionaz municipality, serves as a support point.
The mountain ranks fourteenth among 1,186 peaks in Aosta Valley, with a prominence of 646 meters and an isolation distance of 7.24 kilometers.
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