Published on December 3, 2024 at 06:59. / Modified on December 3, 2024 at 08:37.
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At the beginning of September, the University of Lausanne announced that an anonymous peak dethroned the Crêt de la Neige as the highest point of the Jura massif.
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An identical announcement, for the same summit, was made in 2003. Because this summit is not unknown. Its altitude was even measured for the first time in the late 1820s.
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If it has disappeared into oblivion, it is for reasons of visibility and ease of calculating altitudes.
The announcement made headlines at the beginning of September. The University of Lausanne (Unil) then communicated that, “often considered as the roof of the Jura massif, the Crêt de la Neige [venait] to lose his title. Culminating at 1718 meters, it was dethroned by an anonymous peak, which exceeded it by 2.75 meters. With its exact 1720.83 meters, it was named “J1” by the Unil scientists who identified it. But this summit is not unknown. Its altitude was even calculated, for the first time, in the 1820s. We tell you its story.
“We did not make a discovery per se, in fact we did not use that word. It is rather a rediscovery: we have found and precisely determined the position of a point,” indicates György Hetényi, professor at the Unil Institute of Earth Sciences. Because, following the publication of the study in the Geology memoirs and its media coverage, it received several returns giving numerous details on the history of this summit. Feedback that he now integrates into the presentations he gives, as was the case during the 22nd Swiss geosciences meetings, at the beginning of November in Basel.
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