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South of Col de Bretolet, the 2406m Tête de Bossetan more or less marks the western end of the Dents Blanches wall, which should not be confused with the better-known 4356m Dent Blanche in the Pennine Alps (see 2:6). While a short spur continues roughly westward, carrying the spectacular cliffs of Les Terres Maudites, the frontier ridge turns to the east, then kinks southeast across Col de Bossetan (2289m) before rising for almost 400m to the Pointe de la Golette which effectively marks a junction of ridges. To the southwest the crest of Les Dents d’Oddaz projects well into France, but the Dents Blanches ridge stretches a little north of east over a succession of minor summits and cols. Its precipitous north wall, whose highest point is the Dent de Barme (2759m), usually holds onto pockets of snow throughout much of the summer. According to an early Baedeker guide, its ascent from the Barme alpage was (in wonderfully restrained 19th-century prose) a 6hr climb ‘without danger for proficients’.