Dôme de Rochefort

The higher of the two summits on the Rochefort ridge, the spectacular snow arête that links the Dent du Géant to the Grandes Jorasses. Climbed in 1873 by the English alpinist James Eccles with the Chamonix Payot brothers — the same rope that made many of the first ascents on the Italian side of the Mont Blanc range in the 1870s. The Rochefort ridge traverse (Aiguille de Rochefort → Dôme de Rochefort → Calotte de Rochefort, often continuing to the Grandes Jorasses) is one of the great snow ridges of the western Alps and was completed in full only at the turn of the 20th century.