Mont Blanc, mountain chain, Col de Balme.

Through forest, over mats and hillsides with red-flowering rhododendrons we stride up and finally after several hours in 2500 meters altitude on the Col de Balme, the border of France and Switzerland, arrived where we all of a sudden the view of the whole Mont Blanc chain opened as you emerges in this view. We see from left to right, the Aignille Verte and du Dru, before which the glacier of Argentiere descends, then beyond the deep Einsattlung in the middle of the Tour Ronde and the peaks of the Aiguilles of Charmez un du Midi and nunn the powerful Firnkuppe of Mont Blanc itself to the join, sending you the Dome du Gouter and the Aiguille du Gouter. In the depths of the green valley Chamonix accuses out until its almost the sole large Bossons glacier descends from Mont Blanc. The prospect is for anyone who for the first time visited the Mont Blanc region, of overwhelming grandeur, it is one of the loftiest of the whole Alps. Mont Blanc, mountain chain, Col de Balme. (Photo by: Carl Simon/United Archives/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)