# Mont Brouillard

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**Mont Brouillard** (4,069 m) is a mountain in the [Mont Blanc massif](/source/Mont_Blanc_massif) in the [Val d'Aosta](/source/Val_d'Aosta), [Italy](/source/Italy), being a satellite peak on the south ridge of [Mont Blanc](/source/Mont_Blanc).[1]

## Toponym

Though in [French](/source/French_language) this name means "mountain of mist", this toponym comes from [Valdôtain Francoprovençal patois](/source/Vald%C3%B4tain). According to Aostan botanist and scientist [Joseph-Marie Henry](/source/Joseph-Marie_Henry),[2] the word *Broillà* means "made of *breuils*", *Breuil* meaning alpine marshy berm, as for [Breuil](/source/Breuil-Cervinia) in [Valtournenche](/source/Valtournenche).

## Ascent

The question of who made the first ascent of the peak was for a time a matter of contention. Martino Baretti and his guide Jean-Joseph Maquignaz believed that they had climbed the peak, together with [Punta Baretti](/source/Punta_Baretti), on 28 July 1880, but [Karl Blodig](/source/Karl_Blodig) showed that this was unlikely, no cairn being found when he made his ascent on 10 July 1906 with [Oscar Eckenstein](/source/Oscar_Eckenstein) and Alexis Brocherel.[3] Later research showed that the time that Baretti gave for the traverse between Punta Baretti and Mont Brouillard was "half that required".[3]

The Brouillard ridge to the summit of Mont Blanc does not cross Mont Brouillard, being separated from the peak by the Col Emile Rey.[1]

## References

1. Dumler, Helmut and Burkhardt, Willi P., *The High Mountains of the Alps*, London: Diadem, 1993, p. 197

1. *Eau, acqua, éve - entre littérature, science et histoire*, éd. Duc, [Saint-Christophe](/source/Saint-Christophe,_Italy), p. 96.

1. Dumler, Helmut and Burkhardt, Willi P., op. cit., p. 198

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