The Mont-Fallère or Mont Fallère (sometimes wrongly spelled in Italian as Fallere) is a 3,061.5 metres high mountain belonging to the Italian side of Pennine Alps. __NOTOC__
Geography
The Mont-Fallère is located on the ridge dividing the Great St Bernard Valley (North and East) from the Valdigne, a term and used to define the upper part of the Aosta Valley. Administratively the mountain is the tripoint connecting the Italian comunes of Sarre, Gignod and Saint-Pierre.
SOIUSA classification According to SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the mountain can be classified in the following way: main part = Western Alps major sector = North Western Alps section = Pennine Alps subsection = Grand Combin Alps supergroup = Catena Grande Rochère-Grand Golliaz group = Grande Rochère-Monte Fallère subgroup = Gruppo del Monte Fallère code = I/B-9.I-A.2.b
Access to the summit The mountain can be accessed by signposted routes or from Thouraz (1.652 m), a village in the comune of Sarre, or from Vétan (Saint-Pierre). Both of them require some hiking experience. The top of Mont-Fallère offers a good point of view on Mont Blanc, Grand Combin, Grivola and many other peaks of the Graian and Pennine Alps.
Mountain huts Refuge du Mont-Fallère (2,385 m).
Maps Military Geographic Institute (IGM) official maps of Italy, 1:25.000 and 1:100.000 scale, on-line version Carta dei sentieri e dei rifugi scala 1:50.000 n. 5 Cervino e Monte Rosa, Istituto Geografico Centrale - Torino
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