Crossword-Solution: ECRINS 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The highest of all, which occupies a central position, is the Pointe des Ecrins; the second in height, the Meije,(14) is on the north; and the Mont Pelvoux, which gives its name to the entire block, stands almost detached by itself on the outside.

Their works, however, contained numerous errors in regard to the identification of the peaks, and, amongst others, they referred the supremacy to the Mont Pelvoux, the highest point of which they termed the Pointe des Arcines, or des Ecrins.

The natives knew only that the engineers had ascended one peak, and had seen from that one a still higher point, which they called the Pointe des Arcines or des Ecrins.

Our discovery that the peak which is to be called the Pointe des Ecrins was a separate and distinct mountain from Mont Pelvoux—and not its highest point—gave us satisfaction, although it was also rather of the nature of a disappointment.

Tuckett halted before the Pointe des Ecrins, and, dismayed by its appearance, withdrew his forces to gather less dangerous laurels elsewhere.