Mont Cenis
Britishnoun
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The leg starts in the mountains, then offers the somewhat terrifying relief of a plummet down Mont Cenis before barrelling to its destination.
From The Guardian ● May 21, 2013
The frontier climb of Mont Cenis is over 2000m, but the Galibier, tackled via the Col du Télégraphe, is long and steep enough to decide the entire race.
From The Guardian ● May 19, 2013
In 1870, miners finished digging a nearly eight-mile-long tunnel through Mont Cenis, connecting the French and the Italian Alps.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 15, 2008
I am very glad that I did not bring you here; you would have suffered dreadfully in crossing Mont Cenis, where a storm detained me twenty-four hours.
From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Hall, Henry Foljambe
Mont Cenis pass, the, crossed by N., ii.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan
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