Tête Blanche | |
Photo Size: | 285 |
Elevation M: | 3710 |
Prominence M: | 159 |
Prominence Ref: | [1] |
Parent Peak: | Dent d'Hérens |
Map: | Alps |
Location: | Valais, Switzerland Aosta Valley, Italy |
Range: | Pennine Alps |
Coordinates: | 45.9874°N 7.5749°W |
Tête Blanche (lit. White Head, from French) is a mountain of the Pennine Alps on the Swiss-Italian border. Its summit (3,710 metres) is the tripoint between the valleys of Hérens, Mattertal (both in Valais) and Valpelline (in the Aosta Valley), thus forming the linguistic tri-point between French (Val d'Hérens and Aosta Valley), German (Mattertal), and Italian (bilingual Aosta Valley) -speaking areas.
Tête Blanche is generally the high point of the Haute route between Chamonix and Zermatt and the annually race Patrouille des Glaciers. Tête Blanche lies within a few kilometres of the Matterhorn and Dent d'Hérens on the east.