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A gendarme is a pinnacle of rock on a mountain ridge. They are typical of alpine areas. Gendarmes often form on the intersection of two ridges due to...

policeman. Gendarme may also refer to: Gendarme (historical) (or gens d'arme), a French medieval or early modern cavalryman Gendarme (mountaineering), an isolated...

based on the mountain's overall morphology and mountaineering significance. (For example, the Grand Gendarme on the Weisshorn was excluded, despite meeting...

Markus Kronthaler (5 April 1967 – 8 July 2006) was an Austrian gendarme and mountaineer. Kronthaler was born in Kufstein, Tyrol. He was an officer in the...

Picnic on Mount Kenya (Italian: Fuga sul Kenya) by Felice Benuzzi is a mountaineering classic recounting the 1943 attempt of three escaped Italian prisoners...

Madani Bouhouche (14 June 1952 – 22 November 2005) was a Belgian gendarme, and associate of the far right who was convicted of two murders, but strongly...

and climbed the south east face of Nelion. They spent the night near the gendarme, and traversed the snowfield at the head of the Darwin Glacier at dawn...

the most popular in Europe. Organized mountain refuges and various mountaineering and climbing routes are available. The usual starting point is the town...

the Voie Des Cristalliers and Voie Royale) is one of the two normal mountaineering routes used to reach the summit of Mont Blanc in the Alps, ascending...

aid climbing, lead climbing, bouldering, and competition climbing), mountaineering, and to ice climbing. The terms used can vary between different English-speaking...

of Soviet mountaineering. A great number of routes of several grades (from I/II to IV inclusively) allows a wide spectrum of mountaineering. Beginners...

Daikiretto (大キレット) ― Mount Kitahotaka ― Mount Karasawa ― Mount Okuhotaka ― Gendarme (ジャンダルム, jandarumu) ― Mount Aino ― Mount Nishihotaka ― Nishihodoku There...

including ski touring, alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, hiking, mountaineering, and canyoning. Today, the economy of the massif is primarily focused...

see List of mountains of Switzerland. The International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation defines a summit in the Alps as independent, if the connecting...

approached reasonably easily while still providing a very difficult mountaineering challenge. Willy Merkl was the leader in 1932 and 1934 but on the 1934...

and 21, Pete Schoening and Gibson Reynolds succeeded in negotiating the gendarme that had rebuffed the failed attempts and reached the top on July 23. Schoening...

and climbed the southeast face of Nelion. They spent the night near the gendarme and traversed the snowfield at the head of the Darwin Glacier at dawn before...

Enforcement Command (Faraja), which serves an analogous function to a gendarme. While the IRIAF protects the country's sovereignty in a traditional capacity...

the bridge over the Virgin River, and the Cave Route below the Cerberus Gendarme. Additional scenes were shot in Monument Valley at the Tyrolean Transfer...

rewarded the successful ascent, traditionally marks the start of modern mountaineering. The first woman to reach the summit was Marie Paradis in 1808. At the...