Little St. Bernard

The most famous hospices are those of the Great and Little St Bernard Passes in the Alps.

It was a fine October morning when the Carthaginian general set out to cross the Alps by the road over the Little St. Bernard, and after a nine days' march, which was at that time a nine days' wonder, he reached the top of the mountain.

Little St. Bernard Pass, the crossing of the, ii.

Hannibal was 29 when he crossed the Little St. Bernard Pass in the Alps; he was 31 at Cannae and was 45 at Zama.

And long before Napoleon's time, Hannibal crossed the Alps into Italy with elephants and a full baggage train, probably via the Little St. Bernard or the Mt.