The switches white of Peuterey is a top of the Italian part of the Massif of Mont Blanc. It culminates to 4112 m of altitude. It is located on the edge of Peuterey, between the black Aiguille of Peuterey and the Grand pillar of Angle (GPA).

Access

• the white Needle of Peuterey is climbed at the time of a crossing of the edge of Peuterey until the Mont Blanc, while passing by the Grand pillar of Angle (4243m). The race leaves the Monzino refuge (2590m) or the bivouac Craveri (3490m), which one reaches by the Val Veni, in Italy.
• the white needle of Peuterey is a race superb, but very difficult, reserved to the senior mountaineers. It is the normal way most difficult from all the 4000 of the Alps.
• Difficulty: D+; passages of IV

Rises

• the first rise of the white needle of Peuterey was carried out in 1885 by Emile Rey, Ambros Supersaxo, Alois Andenmatten and H. Seymour King.

See too

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