- Les Droites
Infobox Mountain
Name = Les Droites
Photo = drus-verte.jpg
Caption = TheAiguille du Dru (left), theAiguille Verte (centre top) and Les Droites (background right)
Elevation = convert|4000|m|ft|0|lk=on
Location = FRA
Range =Graian Alps
Type =Granite
Prominence =
Coordinates =coord|45|56|20|N|6|59|28|E|region:FR_type:mountain
Topographic
First ascent =7 August 1876 by Thomas Middlemore and John Oakley Maund with guides Henri Cordier, Johann Jaun and Andreas Maurer
Easiest route = AD
Easiest route = East ridge (Glacier approach, then rock climb, AD)Les Droites (4,000 m) is a
mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in theFrench Alps and is the lowest of the 4000-metre peaks in the Alps. The mountain has two summits:
*West summit (3,984 m), first ascent byW. A. B. Coolidge ,Christian Almer and Ulrich Almer on16 July 1876
*East summit (4,000 m), first ascent by Thomas Middlemore and John Oakley Maund with guides Henri Cordier, Johann Jaun and Andreas Maurer on7 August 1876 The north face of the mountain rises some 1,600 m from the Argentière basin at an average angle of 60°, and is the steepest face on the 10-km-long ridge that stretches from the
Aiguille Verte toMont Dolent . The first route to be made on it was via the central couloir on the north-east flank by Bobi Arsandaux and Jacques Lagarde on31 July 1930 .Huts
*Refuge d' Argentière (2,771 m)
*Refuge du Couvercle (2,687 m)References
*Dumler, Helmut and Willi P. Burkhardt, "The High Mountains of the Alps", London: Diadem, 1994
External links
* [http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/rock/150261/les-droites.html Les Droites on SummitPost]
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