Pic de Rochebrune

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An impressive peak: Pic de Rochebrune photographed from Mont Chaberton
Photo: Claudia Kurzböck, Outdooractive Premium

moderate

Distance 10.5 km

7:00 h

1,160 m

3,320 m

2,360 m

The ascent of the "Monviso of France", a distinctive rock bastion of dolomite rock in the Briançonnais, is a crumbly and brittle affair with short scrambling sections (T5 II).

The Pic de Rochebrune is technically easier than its forbidding, jagged shape suggests, but you have to struggle through loose scree and crumbly gullies for the last 400 altitude meters from Col des Portes to the summit. The panoramic view of the Écrins massif and Monviso makes up for the effort. The key section, a short wall secured with a fixed rope (III), can be avoided by ascending through a couloir (II).

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