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How can one imagine that to 60 km of Nice, one can find a solid mass as alpine as that of the Mount Blanc or jewel cases. The sharp-edged granite edges and the 3 000 still iodized southernmost meters, dominate the sea the decoration is posed, shock between sea and tops, heat mixes with freshness, this solid mass plunging in the Mediterranean is characterized by its single character. True drinking water reserve of the Riviera, the innumerable lakes of the national park of Mercantour cause also life for an endemic flora and a varied fauna. This imposing solid mass, natural border between France and Italy are in charge of history (still Italian until 1947) whose traces which are leave still present nowadays us interrogative. Why inhospitable Valley of the Wonders was the cradle of civilizations of the bronze age, much of interrogations in front of the rupestral engravings which we could admire thanks to two young guides strong sympathetic nerve and in love with their area. We were likely to see, a fauna which lives in all serenity and to go observed by chamois, moufflons, marmot and even a wolf (lame), a still snow-covered landscape in June starting from 1800m of altitude, or charms it to cross broad firns to 2000m, concern to cross castings of avalanches, torrents, "bridges" demolished, but which happiness of eat at the edge of lake of altitude, as on this photograph with the green lake with dimensions refuge of Fontanalbe with 2000m, during these 5 days which filled us with pleasure.

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