Monte Emilius (French:
Mont Émilius) (3,559 m) is a mountain of the
Graian Alps 
in
Aosta Valley 
, north-western Italy. Located just above the town of Aosta, from where it is visible looking southwards behind the lower
Becca di Nona 
, it is usually climbed starting from the ski resort of Pila, at a height of 1,870 m.
History
This mountain was formerly known as
Pic de dix heures, meaning "10 a.m. peak" in French, as the sun stands right on top of it at 10am, or even as
Pic Chamosser or
Pic Chamoisier. In 1839 the priest Georges Carrel (later prior of the
Collegiate church of Saint Ursus 
) climbed the peak with a 14-year-old girl named Émilie Argentier, the daughter of the mountaineer and doctor Auguste Argentier (1830-1874) from
Cogne 
, in order to promote mountaineering. The peak was thus named after her.