The Queyras Regional Natural Park, tucked away in the Hautes-Alpes is a magical sanctuary of jagged
ridges and deep valleys and it is a dream location for skyrunners, fastpacker and peakbaggers.
This FKT is a project to summit all of the peaks in (or on the border of) the park that are over 3000m in
altitude and have a prominence of 50m or more. There is a fairly even mix between peaks that you will be
able to run all the way, and some where you will have to use your hands as well to do a bit of scrambling for
the summit. The FKT time will be from the summiting of the first peak to the summiting of the last one.
Here is a full list of the peaks
Summit Elev.
Prom
. Difficulty
Pic Nord de la Font Sancte 3385 729 Hike
Pic de Rochebrune 3320 1021 Scramble
Bric Froid - Punta Ramière 3305 676 Scramble
Grand Glaiza 3293 496
Monte Aiguillette 3287 472
Pic des Heuvières 3271 221 Scramble
Le Péouvou 3230 486 Scramble
Pic d'Asti 3220 96 Scramble
Punta Gastaldi 3210 204 Scramble
Le Pain de Sucre 3208 91 Hike
Pic des Veyres 3202 182 Scramble
Crête de la Taillante 3197 287 Scramble
Tête des Toillies 3175 220 Scramble
Pic Brusalana 3172 63 Hike
La Crête de Coq 3159 202 Hike
Pointe de Marte 3152 205 Scramble
Tête du Longet 3146 58 Hike
Mont Ruine 3145 91
Tête de la Petite Part 3144 63 Scramble
Pic de la Farnéiréta 3134 116 Hike
La Roche Noire 3134 146 Scramble
Le Grand Queyras 3114 308 Hike
Pointe Venise 3096 105 Scramble
Pointe des Avers 3089 134 Hike
Pic de Foréant 3081 118 Hike
Petit Rochebrune 3078 248 Hike
Pointe de Rome 3069 95 Scramble
Grand Queyron 3060 295 Hike
Rocca Bianca 3059 162 Scramble
Montagne de Cristillan 3056 65 Hike
Pointe Joanne 3052 180 Hike
Rocher de l'Eissassa 3048 283 Scramble
Pointe de la Saume 3043 260 Hike
La Petite Tête Noire 3039 67 Hike
Punta dell'Alp 3033 189 Scramble
Pointe des Sagnes
Longues 3032 148 Hike
Pic de Caramantran 3025 53 Hike
La Sparveyre 3002 175 Hike
The park boundaries were recently changed, which has resulted in a number of peaks being removed from
the previous list I curated. I welcome feedback on the list.
Comments
Hey ! I have held such a list for a long time. If you take proeminence of 30m as your criteria, you are missing quite a few. I have 57 peaks with a 30m proeminence in my list altought some are debatable due to the fact that the proeminence is sometimes estimated without certainty. I think using a proeminence of 50m (48-51 peaks) or 100m (33 peaks) actually makes the list more interesting.
You also have to know that some summits (Peouvou Nord as an example) are technically out of the PNR by only a few meters, but I still personnaly count them as "in".
Tête des Toillies, which I've climbed is not the hardest one. Pic des Houerts, Peouvou Nord, Punta Roma or Punta Gastaldi are in my opinion of a greater difficulty. But by far the hardest climb is for sure "Aiguilles de la Traversette" (3023m) where you might have to climb in the fifth grade of french rock climbing. For a few of those peaks (most of the time those without a name or "Crête Bertine" (3136m)), no description is findable online (on gulliver, altituderando, camptocamp or any other).
Anyways, I'm happy to see someone interested in this peak list, as I am ! I have climbed 20/57 and all of the southern ones (those around Ceillac) except for Pic des Houerts and Pic des Heuvières.
If you are interested by my list, contact me :)
Hi Tom,
Thanks for your message, I have not logged on here for some time (over a year it seems) so have only just seen it. I would be keen to see your list of 57 peaks.
I initially went with 50m prominence but that took Tête de la Cula out of the list, with the col between it and Tête de Longet being exactly 30m lower than it, and I thought that both peaks should really be in the list. I have just realised that when I did that, I did not go and check for more peaks that now made it into the list due to the change from 50m to 30m.
The new charter of the park has just come out, and the Escreins valley is no longer in the park and given the politics of Vars it looks like it will never come back into the park, so I need to remove the 5 peaks that are outside the new boundary now.
What you said about the Péouvou Nord, I think that is most likely a cartography error, I have noticed quite a few errors in this area, it looks like the IGN has not been very thorough. For example they show the peak of the Tête de la Cula about 80m SE of its actual location.
Hopefully see you on the hill one day.
Cheers
Phil