{"id":58424,"date":"2025-01-17T22:45:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T21:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=58424"},"modified":"2025-01-29T23:07:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T22:07:57","slug":"a-spectacular-drone-flight-to-the-aiguille-du-midi-a-3842-metre-french-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/01\/17\/a-spectacular-drone-flight-to-the-aiguille-du-midi-a-3842-metre-french-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"A spectacular drone flight to the Aiguille du Midi, a 3,842-metre French mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the French Alps, in the northern part of the Mont Blanc massif, there is a group of mountains that are like a wall full of edges.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/12\/23\/the-beautiful-landscapes-of-the-dolomite-alps-seen-from-a-birds-eye-view-in-three-minutes\/\">The beautiful landscapes of the Dolomite Alps seen from a bird's eye view in three minutes<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/07\/17\/the-surprising-capanna-regina-margherita-the-highest-mountain-refuge-in-europe\/\">The surprising Capanna Regina Margherita, the highest mountain refuge in Europe<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>These mountains are known as the Aiguilles de Chamonix. <strong>The highest of these mountains is the Aiguille du Midi<\/strong> (Needle of the South, in English), whose summit reaches 3,842 metres above sea level. <strong>The first person to reach this summit was a Polish poet, Antoni Malczewski<\/strong>, who reached it on 4 August 1818, accompanied by the French hunter Jacques Balmat and five other guides.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54271943231_7fca305e7a_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">The Aiguille du Midi cable car, seen from Chamonix (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:France_ARA_74_Chamonix-Mont-Blanc_Aiguille_du_Midi_01.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Calips<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p><strong>A cable car was opened in 1955 that allows you to reach the top of this mountain<\/strong> (the ascent to the summit is done by elevator). <strong>For 20 years it was the highest cable car in the world<\/strong>, although today it is still the one with the greatest vertical distance: 2,807 meters. <strong>The cable car begins its journey in Chamonix, at an altitude of 1,030 meters<\/strong>. This French town is where a spectacular drone flight published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Romano_FPV\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Romano FPV<\/a> three months ago begins, heading towards the Aiguille du Midi. The video was recorded with an HGLRC Rekon Y6 drone. The soundtrack is the song <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HS8setjWmRc\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\"UruR\"<\/a> by the Norwegian folk group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wardruna.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wardruna<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FPV Drone extrem long range:  From Chamonix (1030m alt) to Aiguille du midi (3842m), French Alp\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-rzRGR5CYro?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can see some screenshots from this magnificent video here. We start with <strong>an image of the ascent, with the Aiguille du Midi as a white giant in the background<\/strong>. Below we see a torrent of water descending towards Chamonix.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54272338185_db02a9f925_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The impressive ridges of the Aiguille du Midi.<\/strong> I can't even imagine what it must have been like to climb this mountain 207 years ago, when its summit was first reached.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54271026482_e1b21af2a3_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A picture of the descent.<\/strong> We see Chamonix in the background.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54272156463_3832b1a556_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A stunning view of the Glacier du G\u00e9ant<\/strong>, on the left, during the drone's descent back to Chamonix.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54271914006_43b9b16e87_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the French Alps, in the northern part of the Mont Blanc massif, there is a group of mountains that are like a wall full of edges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19535,16882],"tags":[23571,23572,16982,23568,23570,10575,23569,23573],"class_list":["post-58424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exploring-portada-eng","category-forests-and-mountains","tag-aiguille-du-midi","tag-aiguilles-de-chamonix","tag-alps","tag-antoni-malczewski","tag-chamonix","tag-france","tag-jacques-balmat","tag-mont-blanc"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 23:57:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}