Vercors Massif

The Vercors is a high limestone country enclosed by the valleys of the Isère, Drac and Drôme. Great cliffs guard the edges of its plateaux, while rivers such as the Bourne cut through the rock towards the Isère. Forests, pastures and gorges lie within the mountain barrier, and water disappears into caves and underground passages in the porous stone. The steep approaches have long made the plateau a world apart from the plains below.