Regional notes

The French Alps form the western flank of the great mountain arc of some 800 km that stretches around the northern perimeter of Italy. The French portion of the range includes the highest summit in Western Europe, Mont Blanc at 4808,75m, which gives its name to this SOTA region. Mont Blanc is actually a shared summit, forming part of the frontier with Italy where it is called Monte Bianco. Several other summits in this region are also shared with Italy or Switzerland.

Due to the number of summits in the Alps, the range has been split into two SOTA regions, with Isère (38), Savoie (73) and Haute-Savoie (74) comprising the northern (Mont Blanc) group, and the remainder comprising the southern (Méridionales) group.