Val Veni, Vidi, Vici

We are in 2026 AD. The entire Mont-Blanc Massif has succumbed to the multiple assaults of free-skiers. All of it? No! Two large valleys with Himalayan proportions still resist the invader. And the ski outing is not easy for hikers heading to the secluded refuges of Elisabettum, Durium, Gonellum, and Monzinum…
One of these two difficult-to-tame valleys is the Val Veni: a valley floor carved by the Dora di Veny, a peaceful river originating from the Miage and Lée Blanche glaciers. The ski lifts of Courmayeur are well present, in number, at the valley entrance on the south side. But it is its western end and northern side that hold particular interest for our Gaulish friends Askiracourcix, Aventurépix, and Cérandomatix. For it is here that one finds the border peaks overlooking the Dora by more than 2000 m, with chaotic glaciers enough to make more than one Roman shiver, and multiple peaks ranging between 3000 m and 4807 m.