Val Veny (also Val Vény ) is a lateral valley of the Mont Blanc massif , lying to the south-west of Courmayeur . The valley head is at the Seigne Pass .
7-724: Val Veny was formed by two glaciers: the Miage Glacier and the Brenva Glacier . Val Veny is divided into three parts: Chécrouit Lake (2,165m) lies on the right side of the Val Veny, near Courmayeur. On the opposite side you can see Mont Blanc, the Dent du Géant (4,013 m ) and the Brenva Glacier. At the entrance of the valley lies the shrine of Our Lady of Healing ( French : Notre-Dame-de-guérison ). Val Veny
14-506: Is an ice-contact lake near the southern end of the Miage Glacier, located on the outside of the glacier's 90-degree bend eastwards. It is a popular tourist attraction due to the spectacular ice cliffs rising up to one side and its two-coloured appearance. The colours reflect varying sediment concentrations in the water which arise as a result of the filtering effect of the debris. Huge ice blocks have been known to break off
21-797: Is situated on the southwest flank of the Mont Blanc massif , flowing from the Bionnassay Pass (3,892 m (12,769 ft) above sea level ) in a generally southerly direction towards Val Veny . Its most northerly arm or tributary is the Glacier de Bionnassay italien , which arises from a cirque between the south eastern side of the Aiguille de Bionnassay, the Col de Bionnassay and the Calotte des Aiguille Grises. This descends for 2.5 km below
28-519: Is the starting point of the normal Italian route on Mont Blanc via the Miage Glacier and the Francesco Gonella Refuge . 45°47′40″N 6°54′55″E / 45.79444°N 6.91528°E / 45.79444; 6.91528 Miage Glacier The Miage Glacier ( French : Glacier du Miage ; Italian : Ghiacciaio del Miage ) is a debris -covered glacier in the upper Aosta Valley , in northwestern Italy . It
35-722: The Col Infranchissable then turns south-east to merge with other glaciers, thence continuing as the Miage glacier. At around 10 km (6.2 mi) in length, the Miage Glacier is Italy's longest glacier and also the largest debris-covered glacier in Europe. Approximately 5 km (1.9 sq mi) of its total area of ~11 km (4.2 sq mi) is covered in debris originating primarily in rockfall from surrounding walls and avalanching in accumulation areas of its four tributaries . Debris carried along within
42-406: The terminus . Patchy areas can occur, however, where crevasses or moulins occur. Debris thickness generally increases from a few centimetres at 2,400 m (7,900 ft) asl to over 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) at the terminus at ~1,775 m (5,823 ft) asl, although the spatial distribution of thicknesses is heterogeneous especially on parts of the northern terminal lobe. Miage Lake
49-408: The glacier is also being exposed at increased rates due to accelerating thinning of the glacier tongue. The number of sources of supraglacial debris as well as the unusual, mica schist -dominated lithology of the rock walls surrounding the glacier, makes for a varied debris lithology; debris cover becomes continuous at ~2,400 m (7,900 ft) above mean sea level (asl) and remains unbroken to
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