Pointe Helbronner is a mountain

Mountain

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 in the Mont Blanc massif

Mont Blanc Massif

The Mont Blanc massif is a mountain range in the western Alps. It is named after Mont Blanc, at 4,810.45 m the highest summit of the Alps. It is located in France , Italy , and Switzerland...

 in the French Alps

French Alps

The French Alps are those portions of the Alps mountain range which stand within France, located in the Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regions....

 on the watershed between France and Italy.

The peak which previously was a mere geodetic reference point was named after Paul Helbronner, a French polytechnicien

École Polytechnique

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, alpinist

Mountaineering

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 and geodesist

Geodesy

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 who pioneered cartography

Cartography

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 of the French Alps.

Pointe Helbronner is served with the Funivie Monte Bianco, a cable car from La Palud, a village near Courmayeur

Courmayeur

Courmayeur is an Italian town and comune in the autonomous region of Aosta Valley, in northern Italy. It is located at the foot of Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in western Europe, in the Graian Alps range, and is crossed by the Dora Baltea...

 in the Aosta Valley (Italy

Italy

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), and also with the Vallee Blanche Aerial Tramway

Vallee Blanche Aerial Tramway

The Vallée Blanche Aerial Tramway or Funivia dei Ghiacciai or Télécabine Panoramic Mont-Blanc, is a passenger aerial tramway between Courmayeur and Chamonix by passing over the Mont Blanc Massif, in the Alps. The project was by Vittorio Zignoli of Polytechnic University of Turin...

 leading to the Aiguille du Midi

Aiguille du Midi

The Aiguille du Midi is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps.The cable car to the summit, the Téléphérique de l'Aiguille du Midi, was built in 1955 and held the title of the world's highest cable car for about two decades. It still holds the record as the highest vertical ascent...

 at a distance of 5 km (3.1 mi) which in its turn is the top station of the Téléphérique de l'Aiguille du Midi, the cable car arriving from Chamonix

Chamonix

Chamonix-Mont-Blanc or, more commonly, Chamonix is a commune in the Haute-Savoie département in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It was the site of the 1924 Winter Olympics, the first Winter Olympics...

.

Pointe Helbronner is also the starting point of a ski run via the Glacier du Géant and the Mer de Glace

Mer de Glace

The Mer de Glace is a glacier located on the northern slopes of the Mont Blanc massif, in the Alps. At long and deep, it is the longest glacier in France.-Geography:...

 to Montenvers

Montenvers Railway

The Montenvers Railway or Chemin de fer du Montenvers is a rack railway line in the Haute-Savoie region of France. The line runs from a connection with the SNCF, in Chamonix, to the Hotel de Montenvers station, at the Mer de Glace, at an altitude of ....

 and even to Chamonix and the starting point of various routes to the mountains nearby.

The station's platform offers a remarkable view over the Aosta valley and the Piedmont

Piedmont

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region. The French-Italian border splits this platform.