Bill Mahaney, Maps
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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.
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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