Great Paradise

See also: Great Paradise (homonymy)

The Grand Paradise (in Italian Gran Paradiso ) is a top of the the Western Italian Alps located between the provinces of Aoste and Turin. Its altitude is of 4061 meters. It is famous 4000 the easiest to climb of all Alps. It often serves as first rise to the initial mountaineers.

The national park

The National park of the Great Paradise, it is also the name of a “royal reserve” created by the king Victor-Emmanuel II in 1856 to protect the ibex , then in process of extinction. This protected territory became a National park in 1922. It inspired the later creation of the National park of the Vanoise than it is next to.

Rises

  • 1860 - First rise, on September 4th, by John Jeremy Cowell, W. Dundas, Michel-Clement Payot and Jean Tairraz.

See too

  • Classification of the tops of the Alps of more than 4000 meters

External bonds

  • Site of the national park of the Great Paradise
  • Panorama

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