Mont Brouillard

A subsidiary summit on the Brouillard ridge, the south-west arête falling from Mont Blanc into the head of Val Veni. The Brouillard ridge was explored systematically only in the 1880s and 1890s by the Italian-side guides Émile Rey, J.J. Maquignaz and Laurent Croux; the precise first ascent of the Mont Brouillard summit is poorly documented in the alpine-club minutes of the period, and most modern climbers reach it as part of a traverse rather than as an objective in its own right. Its position close to the higher Picco Luigi Amedeo and Punta Baretti makes it a natural step on a Brouillard-ridge link-up.