Le Môle Explained

Le Môle
Elevation M:1,863
Prominence M:1,254
Prominence Ref:[1]
Range:Chablais Alps
Location:Haute-Savoie, France
Map:Alps
Coordinates:46.1067°N 6.455°W

Le Môle (in French pronounced as /lə mol/) is a mountain of the Chablais Alps in the Haute-Savoie department of France which dominates the area around the town of Bonneville. The communes of Ayze, La Tour, Saint-Jean-de-Tholome, Marignier, Saint-Jeoire-en-Faucigny, Viuz-en-Sallaz, Peillonnex, and Faucigny encircle it. It rises to 1,863 metres and affords an excellent 360-degree view of the surrounding region.

Though a small mountain by Alpine standards, it is of great geographic importance as it divides the vallée de l'Arve to the south and the west from the vallée du Giffre to the north and southeast, and dominates the southern entrance to the Geneva basin. Mary Shelley, in her 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, quotes Le Môle as being seen by Victor Frankenstein from Geneva, where he was born and lived before being a student in Germany.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Le Môle -peakbagger. peakbagger.com. 5 February 2015.