Jul 18 2024
Rötspitze | Pizzo Rosso di Predoi 🏔️ Overview Rötspitze is a striking, glacier-clad mountain standing directly on the border between Austria and Italy. Rising to approximately 3,495 meters in the western Venediger Group, it forms one of the most recognizable summits in the high country between East Tyrol and South Tyrol. The mountain is known …
Jul 06 2024
🏔️ Overview Caucasus Minor, more commonly called the Lesser Caucasus, is a complex mountain system stretching approximately 600 kilometers across the South Caucasus. Its interconnected ranges, volcanic plateaus, highland lakes, forested valleys, and rocky summits extend primarily through Armenia, southern Georgia, and western Azerbaijan. Although overshadowed by the higher and more heavily glaciated Greater Caucasus, …
Jul 05 2024
Mount Aragats | Aragats Lerr 🏔️ Overview Mount Aragats rises above the Armenian Highlands as a vast, four-peaked volcanic massif and the highest mountain in Armenia. Its northern summit reaches approximately 4,090 meters, or 13,419 feet, making it the highest point in the Lesser Caucasus, also known as the Caucasus Minor. Unlike a narrow mountain …
May 02 2024
Dykh-Tau Dykh-Tau Dykh-Tau is one of the great high mountains of the Caucasus, rising to 5,205 meters (17,076 feet) in the rugged mountains of Kabardino-Balkaria in southern Russia. Only Mount Elbrus rises higher in Russia—and, under the most commonly used boundary between Europe and Asia, Dykh-Tau is also the second-highest mountain in Europe. Unlike the …
May 02 2024
Koshtan-Tau Koshtan-Tau Koshtan-Tau is one of the great ice-covered giants of the Central Caucasus, rising to 5,152 meters (16,903 feet) in the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. Towering above a landscape of glaciers, steep ridges, and some of the highest mountains in Europe, it belongs to the extraordinary concentration of 5,000-meter summits surrounding the Bezengi region. …
Apr 23 2024
Mount Kazbek Rising above the high valleys of northern Georgia, Mount Kazbek is one of the great peaks of the Greater Caucasus. Its broad, glacier-covered summit reaches 5,054 meters (16,581 feet), placing it among the highest mountains in both Georgia and the Caucasus as a whole. Kazbek is more than an impressive high-altitude summit. It …
Jan 21 2024
Punta Maquignaz Punta Maquignaz, also known in French as Pointe Maquignaz, is a 3,801-meter (12,470-foot) alpine summit on the border between Italy and Switzerland. It rises along the dramatic east ridge of Dent d’HĂ©rens in the Pennine Alps, only a few kilometers west of the Matterhorn. Rather than being an isolated mountain, Punta Maquignaz forms …
Jan 21 2024
Castor 🏔️ Overview Castor is a striking 4,223-meter (13,855-foot) mountain in the Pennine Alps, rising along the high Alpine frontier between Switzerland’s canton of Valais and Italy’s Aosta Valley. Together with nearby Pollux, it forms the famous pair of summits known as the “Twins,” named for Castor and Pollux of classical mythology. Of the two …
Jan 21 2024
Breithorn (Western Summit) Rising above the glaciers east of the Matterhorn, the Breithorn’s Western Summit is one of the most recognizable 4,000-meter peaks in the Pennine Alps. At 4,164 meters (13,661 feet), it is the highest point of the broad, heavily glaciated Breithorn ridge on the border between Switzerland and Italy. The mountain has an …
Jan 21 2024
Klein Matterhorn Klein Matterhorn is a dramatic high-Alpine summit above Zermatt in Switzerland’s canton of Valais. Rising beside the glaciers south of the village and immediately west of the Breithorn, the mountain is famous for something unusual: visitors can travel almost all the way to its summit by cable car. The tourist complex on the …
