BILL MAHANEY — author of The Warmaker

Bill Mahaney, Maps

Bill Mahaney

The author (2006) below Mt. Viso on the approach to the Col de la Traversette in the Upper Guil River Basin. Hannibal traversed this glacially-polished bedrock on the way to the col. Elevation = 2700 meters. Photograph by Bob Siegenthaler, USMC retired.

 

Col de Traversette





Col de la Traversette from the upper Guil River in present-day France. The top of a rockfall dating to the Little Ice Age (ca. ~200 years) is in foreground. The rockfall postdates passage of the Punic Army (218 BC) that moved up and over the slide-rock