Mount Pelee, volcano on the island of Martinique, owes its name to the sorry aspect of its flanks covered with ash.

Dominating the north of its imposing mass culminating in 1 397 metres, it is part of the nine active volcanoes of the arc of the Lesser Antilles.

On May 8, 1902, a pyroclastic flow breakaway of the crater has completely destroyed the town of Saint-Pierre doing about 29 000 dead.

Currently, since the earthquake of November 2007, we can not access the summit (compulsory stop at the refuge No. 2).