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EnglishThe Mont Valier massif is located in the French department of Ariège (Occitanie region). Although the highest peak in the department is the Pica d’Estats (3,145 m), on the border between France and Spain (Catalonia), it is the Mont Valier Massif that is home to the easternmost glacier in the Pyrenees.
Of the twelve Pyrenean massifs, Mont Valier had the smallest ice extent during the Little Ice Age. The 5 ha it reached represented 0.2% of the total area of the mountain range. It currently occupies the 10th position after the disappearance of all the glacial ice in the Eriste massif.
5ha
Ice expansion during the Little Ice Age
It is the massif that has experienced the least glacial extension during this period, representing only 0.2% of the Pyrenees as a whole.
10º position
It occupies the 10th position in the mountain range after the disappearance of the ice in the Eriste massif and the reduction in the Néouvielle massif
It occupies the 10th position in the mountain range after the disappearance of the ice in the Eriste massif and the reduction in the Néouvielle massif.
