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Nov 26 2024
Aneto
Aneto 🏔️ Overview Aneto is the highest mountain in the Pyrenees, rising to 3,404 meters (11,168 feet) in northeastern Spain. The mountain towers above the Benasque Valley in the province of Huesca, Aragón, and forms the highest point of the rugged Maladeta Massif. Aneto is also the highest mountain in Aragón, the second-highest summit on …
Nov 25 2024
Cerro El Jabalín
Cerro El Jabalín 🏔️ Overview Cerro El Jabalín is one of the highest and most topographically significant mountains in the Mexican state of Coahuila. Rising from Sierra La Concordia west of Saltillo, the mountain reaches approximately 3,462 meters (11,358 feet) according to PeakVisor, although other topographic sources give elevations closer to 3,440–3,450 meters. What makes …
Nov 25 2024
Shkhara
Shkhara Shkhara rises above the remote valleys of Upper Svaneti as the highest mountain in Georgia and one of the great summits of the Caucasus. Standing directly on the Georgia–Russia border, this immense, heavily glaciated mountain forms the eastern end of the famous Bezengi Wall, a formidable chain of high peaks, steep faces, ridges, and …
Nov 24 2024
Grenzgipfel
Grenzgipfel 🏔️ Overview Grenzgipfel is a 4,618-meter (15,151-foot) summit of the Monte Rosa massif in the Pennine Alps, standing directly on the international border between Italy and Switzerland. Its German name translates simply as “Border Summit,” an unusually literal name for a peak whose geographic importance comes largely from its position on the frontier. Although …
Nov 24 2024
Alaska Range
🏔️ Overview The Alaska Range is the highest mountain range in the United States and one of the most spectacular mountain systems in North America. Sweeping in a broad arc for roughly 600 miles across southern and central Alaska, the range contains enormous glaciers, jagged granite peaks, deep wilderness valleys, and some of the continent’s …
Nov 23 2024
Nordend
Nordend 🏔️ Overview Nordend is a spectacular snow-and-rock summit on the northern edge of the Monte Rosa massif, straddling the border between Switzerland and Italy. Rising to 4,608 meters (15,118 feet), it is one of the highest summits in the Alps and the northernmost major peak of Monte Rosa. Although Nordend is overshadowed by neighboring …
Nov 22 2024
Nadelhorn
Nadelhorn 🏔️ Overview Nadelhorn is a striking 4,000-meter summit in the Mischabel group of the Pennine Alps, rising above the Saas Valley and Mattertal in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. Reaching a commonly quoted elevation of 4,327 meters (14,196 feet), it is the highest summit on the celebrated Nadelgrat, a spectacular ridge linking five Alpine …
Nov 22 2024
Dena
Dena Dena is one of the great high-mountain landscapes of Iran. Rising above the central Zagros Mountains, this rugged limestone massif contains dozens of summits, deep valleys, oak-covered lower slopes, alpine terrain, springs, snowfields, and some of the most important wildlife habitat in southwestern Iran. Although Dena is often described as a single mountain, it …
Nov 21 2024
Outer Horn
Outer Horn 🏔️ Overview Outer Horn is a dramatic high summit in the Cathedral Peak area of South Africa’s Drakensberg Mountains. Rising to approximately 3,011 meters (9,879 feet), the peak forms part of one of the most distinctive collections of freestanding summits in KwaZulu-Natal. Outer Horn stands close to Inner Horn, The Bell, Cathedral Peak, …
Nov 21 2024
Drakensberg: Geography, Highest Peaks, Hiking & Complete Mountain Guide
🏔️ Overview The Drakensberg is the great mountainous backbone of eastern Southern Africa, rising in a spectacular wall of basalt cliffs, high grasslands, deeply carved valleys, pinnacles, waterfalls, and broad summit plateaus. The range is centered on South Africa and Lesotho, where it reaches its greatest heights and forms one of the continent’s most distinctive …
