Queyras
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The Queyras Valley is located in the French Hautes-Alpes. Its geographical extension is the basin of river Guil, an affluent of river Durance.
The Queyras was supposedly traveled through by Attila when he was conquering various areas of the planet.
It is one of the oldest mountain ranges of the Alps, because it was one of the last ones to be opened to public tourism towards the end of the 19th century. Because of this, it was able to protect itself from massive tourism that has destroyed so many other beautiful areas of the world.
Famous mountains of this range include:
- La Taillante
- Le Grand Queyras (3114 m)-Highest mountain locally.
- Le Bric Bouchet
- Le Col Agnel
- Le Pain de Sucre - literally "Mountain of Sugar" because of the way it looks in winter, when the snow covers only the top part of it, giving it a frosting appearance.
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