Monte Freidour

{{short description|Mountain in Italy}} {{Infobox mountain | name = Monte Freidour | image = Monte_Freidour_001.JPG | image_caption = Southern side. | elevation_m = 1451 | elevation_ref = <ref name = CAI-Pinerolo>{{cite web | url = https://www.caipinerolo.it/wp/giro-del-monte-sette-confini-freidour-val-lemina/ | title = Giro del Monte Sette Confini – Freidour (Val Lemina) | accessdate = 18 January 2022 | language = it | publisher = CAI - Sezione di Pinerolo | date = 14 April 2021 }}</ref> | prominence_m = 158 | prominence_ref = <ref>{{peakbagger | 66315| Monte Freidour-Punta Sperino, Italy }}</ref> | location = Piedmont, Italy | range = Cottian Alps | listing = | map = Italy | range_coordinates = | map_caption = Location in Italy | coordinates = {{coord|44|58|22.85|N|7|18|13.49|E|type:mountain_region:IT_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | coordinates_ref = | first_ascent = | easiest_route = }} '''Monte Freidour''' is a mountain in the Cottian Alps, Metropolitan City of Turin in Piedmont, north-western Italy. It has an elevation of 1.451 m,<ref name = CAI-Pinerolo /> with a secondary summit at {{convert|1445|m|ft|0}},<ref>{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=pDV4PhnOXIEC&q=Monte+Freidour+1445 | title = The Alpine Journal | volume = 86 | publisher = Alpine Club | year = 1981 | pages = 152 | access-date = 2020-02-10 }}</ref> and is composed of gneiss cliffs overlooking the town of Cumiana.

== History == thumb|left|War memorial. At the top of the mountain is a monument celebrating the 8 members of the crew (F/Sgt. C.W. Lawton (Australian), Sgt.s T.D. Fotheringham, E.H.A. Clift, G. Tennison, D.W. Bishop, D.R. Wellon, S.E. Lockton and J. Bucks) of a British Liberator bomber that crashed there on 14 October 1944, during a mission in support of Italian partisans.

== Access to the summit == The peak can also be reached from Talucco, a ''frazione'' of Pinerolo, and from Cantalupa or Giaveno. The Monte Tre Denti is located nearby. The summit can also be reached by mountain bike.<ref name = CAI-Pinerolo />

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