Saint-Clement-sur-Durance: L'Homme de Pierre
L’Homme de Pierre occupies an open alpine slope above the Durance valley in the Hautes-Alpes of southeastern France. It forms part of Risoul’s terrain within La Forêt Blanche, the ski domain shared with neighbouring Vars. Broad managed runs and lift infrastructure cross high pastureland here, while larch woodland covers sections of the surrounding slopes. The Durance is one of the principal rivers of the French Alps, flowing south through Guillestre and the wider valley below. Risoul’s mountain economy combines winter sports with the older pastoral use of these uplands, where scattered hamlets and grazing land remain part of the landscape. This is a distinctly open section of the Southern Alps.
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