15 minutes from the summit of Mt Blanc over to the Mt Blanc de Courmayeur: this must be a record runner who is able to do this in 15 minutes!

So I gather the Peakware World Mountain Encyclopedia stands against all evidence suggested by French maps.

Mt Blanc definitely has nothing to do with Switzerland. But as you say, there are more important things in this world. Probably Aletheiak will comment on the multidimensionality of his happiness experienced when reading this.

Wolfgang

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Von: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com [mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com]Im Auftrag von Roger McCutcheon
Gesendet: Dienstag, 1. November 2005 20:47
An: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
Betreff: Re: [BoundaryPoint] SMh

I thought I´d better check again; I don´t like to leave matters of such import uninvestigated, and as it´s not covenient for me to go to Mont Blanc tonight I contented myself with going to the Peakware World Mountain Encyclopedia: the first time I had discovered it. It states that Mont Blanc is the highest peak in Europe (not counting the Caucasus), and therefore in Italy, France or Switzerland, at 4,810 metres, while Mont Blanc de Courmayeur, which is just below it, and can be reached from it in 15 minutes, is the second highest peak in Italy at 4,748 metres. I will take their word for it! Roger.