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wrote about his ascent of Mont Ventoux (in Provence; elevation 1912 meters) on 26 April 1336 in a well-known letter published as one of his Epistolae familiares...

Mont Ventoux (French: [mɔ̃ vɑ̃tu]; Provençal: Ventor [venˈtu]) is a mountain in the Provence region of southern France, located some 20 km (12 miles) northeast...

of the British team. In the 13th stage of that race, he collapsed and died during the ascent of Mont Ventoux. Simpson fell ill with diarrhoea during...

The 2023 Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge, officially known as CIC – Mont Ventoux, was the fifth edition of the Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge road cycling...

classification of Paris–Nice that year. In the thirteenth stage of the 1967 Tour de France, Simpson collapsed and died during the ascent of Mont Ventoux. He was...

such as his ascent of Mont Ventoux. During his travels, he collected crumbling Latin manuscripts and was a prime mover in the recovery of knowledge from...

Galibier. 1967: 13 July, Stage 13: Tom Simpson died of heart failure during the ascent of Mont Ventoux. Amphetamines were found in Simpson's jersey and blood...

the breakaway. Following stage eleven, which included a double ascent of Mont Ventoux, the closest rivals to Pogačar included Rigoberto Urán, Jonas Vingegaard...

an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a...

The 2021 Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge was the third edition of the Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge road cycling one-day race, which was a category...

On stage 11, which featured a double ascent of Mont Ventoux, Vingegaard attacked on the second climb of the Ventoux. Although Pogačar was initially able...

center of its narrative. In medieval Italy, Petrarch wrote an allegorical account of his 1336 ascent of Mont Ventoux that praised the act of travelling...

abandonment of the 1994 Tour de France, Poli won the Montpellier to Carpentras stage (the 15th) which featured an ascent of Mont Ventoux. Poli calculated...

average gradient of 6.7 percent. Following the descent, the riders reached Sault, near the foot of the first passage of Mont Ventoux. The ascent from Sault...

pleasure in travel, of travelling for the sake of travel and writing about it, is Petrarch's (1304–1374) ascent of Mont Ventoux in 1336. He states that...

towards the bottom of the top twenty placings by the end of the first week. On stage 11 – which included a double ascent of Mont Ventoux – Mollema was in...

started dominantly and won four stages, three of them time trials, including the ascent of Mont Ventoux. His time of 1h 2m 9s from the Bédoin side, which in...

Professor Emeritus of Italian and Comparative Literature, State University of New York at Binghamton. Letter to Posterity Ascent of Mont Ventoux Letter VI.2...

1300–1358) France, climbed Mont Ventoux for the view, before Petrarch Tommy Caldwell (born 1978) US, first free ascents of big wall routes on El Capitan...

Petrarch at some point visited. 1975 Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (posthumously), Mont Ventoux 1976 Sarah Kirsch and Ernst Meister, Arquà Petrarca 1977 Herbert Achternbusch...