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Revision as of 15:26, 27 November 2021
45°22′10″N 5°54′17″E / 45.36944°N 5.90472°E
The Tour Isabelle double arch, also named the Tour Percée arch, is a double natural arch, located in the Parc Naturel Régional de la Chartreuse, Chartreuse Mountains, France.
Its span is 32 metres (105 ft), which makes it the widest natural arch in the Alps.
It remained unknown for probably everybody, until its discovery in May 2005, when Pascal Sombardier, who was trekking to write his book Chartreuse inédite : Itinéraires insolites, dealing with lost places of the range, discovered it fortuitously. Its pictures illustrated the front cover of his book, published in 2006 : this double arch became then the symbol of the hidden treasures of the Chartreuse Mountains.[1]
Located in a very remote area, with a difficult and dangerous access, very few guide books, even the most recent ones, mention its existence. The arch is located on private ground, and its owner fights visitors off[2].
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Dawn on Tour Isabelle (South face) -
Tour Isabelle in the Spring time -
Tour Isabelle neighboring skulls -
Tour Isabelle right after dawn -
Tour Isabelle with person sitting above the main arch to give scale -
Tour Isabelle with person standing under main arch to give scale -
Tour Isabelle in the Winter time -
The double arch
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References
- ^ Sombardier, Pascal (2006). Chartreuse inédite : Itinéraires insolites [Unprecedented Chartreuse: Unusual Itineraries] (in French). Grenoble: Glénat. ISBN 2723453960.
- ^ Guittet, Aymeric (2021-11-19). "« Ils font la loi » : quand chasseurs et randonneurs se disputent un superbe paysage" [They Dictate the Law: when hunters and hikers bicker over a beautiful landscape] (in French).
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