Location of the Grande Aiguille Rousse in the Alps.
Location
Savoie, France
Parent range
Graian Alps
Geology
Mountain type
Schistes lustrés[2]
Climbing
First ascent
Édouard Rochat and Blanc le Greffier on 31 July 1878[3]
The Grande Aiguille Rousse is a mountain peak of the Graian Alps in Savoie, France, situated between the Maurienne and Tarentaise valleys near the Italian border. Reaching an altitude of 3,482 meters (11,424 feet), it exceeds its junior to the west, the Petite Aiguille Rousse, by just 50 m (160 ft). Not far from Levanna, the Grande Aiguille Rousse overlooks Serrù Lake and the Gran Paradiso National Park in Italy.
^ abIGN maps available on Géoportail.
^"Prariond, Galise, sources de l'Isère : cirque des sources de l'Isère, autour du refuge du Prariond". Geol-Alp (in French). 9 April 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
^Club alpin français (1901). Annuaire du club alpin français - vingt-septième année 1900 (in French). Paris: Hachette. p. 391. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
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