Dômes de Miage

Dômes de Miage
The Dômes seen from Chalets de Miage
Highest point
Elevation	3,673 m
Coordinates	45°48′57″N 6°48′00″E / 45.81583°N 6.8°E / 45.81583; 6.8Coordinates: 45°48′57″N 6°48′00″E / 45.81583°N 6.8°E / 45.81583; 6.8
Geography
Location	Haute-Savoie, Rhône-Alpes, France
Parent range	Mont Blanc massif
Geology
Mountain type	snow-covered arête
Climbing
First ascent	2 September 1858, Edmond Thomas Coleman, with Frédéric Mollard and Joseph Jacquemont
Normal route	via the Refuge des Conscrits

The Dômes de Miage are a line of mountain peaks in the south of the Mont Blanc massif that reach a height of 3,673 metres. The snow-covered arête from which they rise is over three kilometres long. The six peaks in the chain are (from southwest to northeast) : L'Aiguille de la Bérangère (3,425 m), and unnamed tops known only from their heights as Dôme 3670, Dôme 3666, Dôme 3633, Dôme 3673 and Dôme 3672.

The ridge of the dômes de Miage is considered one of the most striking in the Mont Blanc massif.

The normal route starts at the Refuge des Conscrits, crosses the Tré-la-Tête glacier, climbs to Col des Dômes (between tops 3633 and 3673) and follows the arête as far as La Bérangère (PD). A crossing from end to end runs from the Refuge des Conscrits to refuge Durier and is a little more difficult (AD). It is usually combined with the long traverse over the Aiguille de Bionnassay to Mont Blanc.

Gallery

Les Dômes au couchant.
The Dômes with Chalets de Miage in the foreground.
The Dômes in winter seen from the Les Contamines-Montjoie.
Summer view of the valley of Les Contamines ; left: the snow-capped Dômes, facing Mont-Joly.
The approach route to the Chalets de Miage, with the Dômes behind.

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Mont Blanc massif

Settlements	Argentière Chamonix Champex Courmayeur La Fouly Les Houches Montroc Les Praz Saint-Gervais-les-Bains Trient

Mountains	Aiguille d'Argentière Aiguille de Bionnassay Aiguille de Blaitière Aiguille Blanche de Peuterey Aiguille du Chardonnet Aiguilles du Diable Aiguilles Dorées Aiguille du Dru Aiguille des Glaciers Aiguille du Goûter Aiguille des Grands Charmoz Aiguille des Grands Montets Aiguille du Grépon Aiguille du Jardin Aiguille du Midi Aiguille de l'A Neuve Aiguille Noire de Peuterey Aiguille du Pissoir Aiguille du Plan Aiguille de Rochefort Aiguille du Tour Aiguille de Tré la Tête Aiguille de Triolet Aiguille Verte La Breya Le Catogne Le Châtelet (Mont Blanc) Dent du Géant Dôme du Goûter Dôme de Rochefort Les Droites Le Génépi Grand Capucin Grand Darray Grand Pilier d'Angle Grande Lui Grande Pointe des Planereuses Grande Rocheuse Grandes Jorasses Mont Blanc Mont Blanc de Courmayeur Mont Blanc du Tacul Mont Brouillard Mont Dolent Mont Mallet Mont Maudit Pic Eccles Picco Luigi Amedeo Pointe Allobrogia Pointe Helbronner Pointe d'Orny Pointe des Plines Pointe Ronde Pointe Walker Le Portalet Punta Baretti Tita Neire Tour Noir

Cols	Col Ferret Col des Montets

Glaciers	Argentière Bossons Mer de Glace Miage Saleina Trient

Refuges	Albert Premier Argentière Cosmiques Couvercle Durier Elisabetta Soldini Montanaro Francesco Gonella Grands Mulets Leschaux Mont-Blanc Nid d'Aigle Plan de l'Aiguille Quintino Sella Tête Rousse Torino Tré la Tête Trient Vallot

Mountaineers (first or major ascents)	Allain Almer Anderegg (J.) Anderegg (M.) Balmat Blanchard Blodig Boivin Bonatti Bonington Boulaz Bristow Brown Burgener Cassin Charlet Clough Cordier (H.) Cordier (P.) Couzy Croz Dent Desmaison Destivelle Długosz Eccles Eckenstein Gabarrou Ghirardini Graham Brown Güssfeldt Harlin Heckmair Hemming Hudson Kennedy King Klucker Kuffner Kukuczka Kurtyka Lachenal Lafaille Lambert Maund Mazeaud Messner Middlemore Moore Mummery Paccard Paradis Patey Ratti Rébuffat Robbins Roch Rouse de Saussure Smythe Stephen Terray Twight Vallençant Walker Whillans Whymper Winthrop Young

Other	Arve (river) Chemin de fer du Montenvers Giardino Botanico Alpino Saussurea Haute Route Marathon du Mont Blanc Mont Blanc glacier flood Mont Blanc Tramway Mont Blanc Tunnel Saint-Gervais–Vallorcine railway Top of the Mont Blanc Tour du Mont Blanc Val d'Aosta Val Veny Vallée Blanche Aerial Tramway

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