Named after Hélène Walker, sister of Horace Walker, the climber after whom the highest summit of the Grandes Jorasses is named.
A sub-summit on the west part of the Grandes Jorasses ridge, climbed together with Pointe Marguerite during the Duke of the Abruzzi's 1898 traverse.
Named for Hélène Walker, sister of Horace Walker — the English alpinist who in 1868 with Melchior Anderegg made the first ascent of the highest summit of the Grandes Jorasses (now Pointe Walker). The Walker party traversed several of the sub-summits on the way, and the alpine-club minutes of the period attached the Walker family names — Hélène and Marguerite — to two of them.
Route lines are approximate — drawn from guidebook waypoints, not GPS tracks. Don't navigate by them.
