Mont Blanc (Monte Bianco in Italian) is the highest mountain in the Alps, the highest in Western Europe, and the highest in the European Union at 4,805.59 metres — a colossal dome of snow and ice straddling the border between France and Italy that has been the holy grail of mountaineering since its first ascent […]
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