bechat

Updated: May 22, 2025

The northern slope of Mont Blanc is hollowed into a vast cavernous channel, half filled with glaciers, and edged on the east by the Mont Maudit, the Aiguille de Saussure, and the Aiguille du Midi, and on the west by the Dome and Aiguille du Gouter and the Gros Bechat.

Various - McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896

Here some underlying irregularity of the rocks, deep beneath the surface of the mighty river of ice, causes the formation of a labyrinth of fissures and crevasses, overhung with towering séracs, or ice turrets; and the ice descends between the Grands Mulets and the rock wall in front of the Gros Bechat in a sort of motionless cascade motionless, that is to say, except when cracks break apart into yawning chasms, and massive blocks tumble into the depths.

Various - McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896