aiguille

Example Sentences

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The 62-year-old reportedly crashed into a stationary skier, a British man, on the Aiguille Rouge mountain in Les Arcs on Tuesday.

From BBC

The film also shows him tackling the Himalayas in Nepal, and Aiguille Dibona, a 3,100-metre peak in the French Alps.

From BBC

By day, you’re a regular tourist soaring skyward to 12,605ft on the Aiguille du Midi cable-car; by night, you’re vibing to legendary DJ Gilles Peterson’s set from the Planpraz pop-up stage, 6,565ft above sea level.

From National Geographic

When I was 10, I had a cousin who got married in Chamonix, and while we were there, my father and I took the lift up to the Aiguille du Midi, and I was just amazed and thought, “I would love to live here.”

From New York Times

In 2007, about 50 cubic metres of ice fell from Planpincieux, while in September last year a mass of ice broke away from the Glacier de la Charpoua, on the south-east side of the Aiguille Verte, on the French side of Mont Blanc.

From The Guardian