La Grave is belonged a small ski place on 1.525 m height in the French alps in the Hautes Alpes.La Grave to the most beautiful villages of France.
The place lain in close proximity to Les Deux Alpes is as Paradies well-known for Freeriden, there in the skiing area (to feet of the 3,983 m high Meije, aerial ropeway from 1.500 to 3,200 m, ski elevators to 3,500 m) hardly prepared runways is present. In addition it is beside Chamonix the most well-known center for extreme ski driving in the alps. It is admits because of its long departures with impressive steep rock slopes, ice gutters (the so-called Couloirs), solid glacier projections/leads and glacier columns, which result in high "Le Rateau" a rounded and breath-robbing impression from the enclosing 3809m.
The very notorious Freeridegebiet should not be underestimated by laymen of the Freeridens. Thus at the end of of April 2006 two Americans died. One assumes that they fell into only easily a glacier column bridged with snow. Only one day after a further Snowboarder would have died likewise nearly, than he slipped with driving on a new route on an ice plate and could only scarcely to a projection/lead over a deep glacier slope save itself.
Annually takes place in La Grave also the Derby de la Meije, which starts de la Lauze on 3.550 m height from the
See also: Barre of the Ecrins
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