Dan d'Eran

The peak got its name from the name of the d'Eran Valley, located north of the peak of the Dan Blanche . It is likely that the original peak was called Dan Blanche . This name now bears the peak, overlapping the view on the Dan-d'Eran from the valley. On old maps, the area in which both peaks were located was called by one word Weisszahnhorn (translated from it. - "White Tooth Peak"). The French name Dent Blanche appeared only in 1820. Since Dan-d'Eran is sometimes hidden behind the Dan-Blanche, in the end the latter received this name. However, locals called the current Mount d'Eran the name of Dan Blanche, which caused confusion. The current names of the peaks are official after the Dufour map was released in 1862 ^[2] .

Dan d'Eran is located in the main mountain range of the Alps between the Swiss canton of Valais in the north and the Italian province of Valle d'Aosta in the south. The northern part of the peak enters the catchment basin of the Rhone River, while the southern part of the mountain feeds the Po River.

Dan d'Eran is located four kilometers west of the top of the Matterhorn and at the same distance north of the Italian mountain resort of Breuil-Cervinia . On the Swiss (northern) side, the mountain rises above the Zmutt glacier. 12 kilometers northeast is the village of Zermatt . The peak of the Dan Blanche is located 7 kilometers to the north.

The first ascent to the summit was made on August 12, 1863, by Florence Crawford Grove , William Edward Hall, Reginald Somerled MacDonald, Montague Woodmass, Melchior Underregg , Juan Pierre Cachat and Peter Perrin.

The first winter ascent was made by M. Piacenza, J.J. Carrell and G. B. Pellizer on January 16, 1910.

The 1,300-meter-high northern wall was first explored by J. Finch, T. G. B. Forster and R. Peto on August 2, 1923 along the diagonal of the northern wall, or “Finch's Way”. On August 10, 1925, Wilo Welzenbach and Eugene Alvine crossed the northern wall directly.

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