Ross mount
Old Volcano, culminating point (1 850 m) of the Islands Kerguelen in the Indian Ocean, located on the peninsula Galliéni, the Ross Mount presents a double top with large Ross (highest) and of small Ross (1 721m).
Baptized Ross Mount by the forwarding of the Challenger in 1874 in homage to the polar explorer Sir James Clark Ross (1800-1862) who visited the archipelago in 1840, the use then gave the name of Large Ross and Small Ross to this mountain very close to the dimension and which the whalers of the 19th century called the Mount fourchu (Forked Mount). It is a mountain escarpée, glaze partly of glaciers and difficult of access which was not climbed for the first time at the end of the 20th century in 1975 by the French mountaineers Jean Afanassieff and Patrick Cordier. In fact, it was the last French top to be overcome. The first crossing of the solid mass, by connecting the two tops small and large Ross, was carried out by a team carried out by the mountaineer Lionel Daudet in December 2006.
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