Mont Blanc

About Mont Blanc:

• It is the highest peak (4,807 metres) in Europe. 
• It is located in the Alps and lies along the French-Italian border and reaches into Switzerland.
• It is nicknamed as "the roof of Europe".
• Its name comes from the perennial snow cap that covers it, meaning literally “the white mountain”.
• The mountain stands in a range called the Graian Alps, between the regions of Aosta Valley, Italy, and Savoie and Haute-Savoie, France.

Key facts about Alps

• The Alps emerged during the Alpine orogeny an event that began about 65 million years ago as the Mesozoic Era was drawing to a close.
• They are young fold mountains with rugged relief and high conical peaks.
• The Alps arose as a result of the collision of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates in which the Alpine Tethys which was formerly in between these continents disappeared.
• The Alps extend north from the subtropical Mediterranean coast near Nice, France, to Lake Geneva before trending east-northeast to Vienna (at the Vienna Woods).
• There they touch the Danube River and meld with the adjacent plain.
• The Alps form part of France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, and Albania.