Mont Donon
About Mont Donon
Mont Donon is the highest peak in the northern Vosges. It is a Category 2 climb in the Tour de France.
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It's uh, this was revealed that that was the spot where it happened in a letter written by his dad who bragged about it a lot. It was at the top of this mountain called Mount Donon in France and he made it to the top and it was years later. This wasn't done in his lifetime but years later a museum curator thought I've got to commemorate this and brought a sandstone and it's there to this day.
from 215: No Such Thing As A Chihuahua Dog Sled Team, 2018-05-04 at 00:12:59 · read transcript
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This mountain being a mountain that wasn't super famous not everyone knew about it so whenever he retold the story of when he was conceived as we all do he made lots of little changes so there'd been a Celtic temple on Mount Donon and he changed that to a Roman temple of love and he changed the mountain range to the Alps because everyone's heard of the Alps and he made it Mont Blanc because that's 3,000 feet taller and so his version he.
215: No Such Thing As A Chihuahua Dog Sled Team, 2018-05-04 · listen
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