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Officially the Chablais region extends from St Gingolph, the little border town on the southern shore of Lac Léman, to St-Maurice north of Martigny in the Rhône valley, and includes all the mountains up to the French border. Of these, the Dents du Midi do not carry that border for they stand as an isolated block moated by valleys on three sides, unlike the Dents Blanches – the headwall of the Val d’Illiez – which make an attractive neighbour and a natural frontier spreading eastward to the handsome Mont Ruan. There the border turns abruptly to the south to enclose on the Swiss side the two Emosson lakes, from whose slopes tremendous views are granted of the Mont Blanc range to the south.

The small green lake at the Pas de Morgins

South of the smaller of these lakes, the border twists northeast, then southeast at the barrage of the larger Lac d’Emosson above Le Châtelard in the Trient valley, which effectively separates the Chablais Alps from outliers of the Mont Blanc massif. Here, however, we extend the region slightly to include all the Vallée du Trient, so that anything east of its bounding ridge can effectively be considered with the Pennine Alps in ssss1.