Mt. Blanc

Mt. Blanc is one of the highest peak in the alps 15,771 feet (4807 m) high. Massif that lies along the french halion border and reaches in to switzerland as well Mt Blanc was created by an upswelling of 1 geneous rock from the bed of an ancient sea its peak perpetually covered in snow soars above 40 square miles of glaciers that periodically flow to the bottom of near by chamonix valley. A 16th century telling of much earlier legend mentions a temple and statue of the celtic sky god jupiter poeninus that was once located upon a pass high on the mountains side old christian myths tell of St. Bernard`s eventual domination of this pagan devill and the ensuing naming of the peak as mont moudit or the accursed mountain visited by famous european poets such as goethe.