Category: Europe

Stob Binnein

Stob Binnein 🏔️ Overview Stob Binnein is one of the great high mountains of the southern Scottish Highlands, rising to 1,165 meters (3,822 feet) near Crianlarich in central Scotland. Only nine meters lower than neighboring Ben More, it forms a striking twin-mountain pair with its larger companion. Although Ben More is slightly higher and more …

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Snowdon

Snowdon 🏔️ Overview Snowdon, known in Welsh as Yr Wyddfa, is the highest mountain in Wales, rising to 1,085 meters (3,560 feet) above sea level. It stands in the heart of Eryri National Park in Gwynedd, North Wales, surrounded by steep ridges, glacial lakes, rocky cwms, and some of the most dramatic mountain scenery in …

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Clawdd Coch

Clawdd Coch 🏔️ Overview Clawdd Coch is a high rocky summit on the southern side of Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) in Gwynedd, North Wales. Rising to approximately 931 meters (3,054 feet), it forms part of the dramatic southern ridge system of the Yr Wyddfa massif within Eryri National Park. Although overshadowed by the 1,085-meter summit of …

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Lugnaquilla

Lugnaquilla | Lugnaquillia | Log na Coille Lugnaquilla rises above the southern Wicklow Mountains as the highest mountain in County Wicklow and the entire province of Leinster. Reaching 925 meters (3,035 feet), it is also the highest mountain in Ireland outside County Kerry. Often shortened simply to “Lug,” the mountain is very different in character …

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Normannviktinden

Normannviktinden Normannviktinden, more commonly spelled Nordmannviktinden in Norwegian mapping and reference sources, is a prominent mountain in Kåfjord Municipality in Troms, northern Norway. Rising above the eastern side of the Lyngenfjord area between Nordmannvik and Olderdalen, the mountain reaches an officially mapped elevation of approximately 1,353.5 meters (4,441 feet). Despite being considerably lower than Norway’s …

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Riehppegaisa

Riehppegaisa 🏔️ Overview Riehppegaisa, also written Riehppegáisá, is a remote and highly prominent mountain in Nordreisa Municipality in Troms, northern Norway. Rising to approximately 1,337 meters (4,388 feet), the mountain stands east of Reisadalen within the northern Scandinavian Mountains. Riehppegaisa is not among Norway’s highest mountains, but elevation alone understates its topographic significance. With roughly …

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Beahcegealháldi

Beahcegealháldi | Beahceegeal-Haldi 🏔️ Overview Beahcegealháldi is a remote Arctic mountain in Troms, northern Norway, rising on or very close to the boundary between the municipalities of Kvænangen and Nordreisa. The mountain stands east of Reisadalen amid a broad landscape of high plateaus, lakes, valleys, and rounded uplands belonging to the northern Scandinavian Mountains. Beahcegealháldi …

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Yudychvumchorr

Yudychvumchorr Yudychvumchorr (Russian: Юдычвумчорр) is the highest mountain in the Khibiny Mountains of northwestern Russia and the highest point on the entire Kola Peninsula. Rising to approximately 1,201 meters (3,940 feet), this broad Arctic summit dominates one of Russia’s most geologically unusual mountain landscapes. 🏔️ Overview Yudychvumchorr rises in Murmansk Oblast on Russia’s Kola Peninsula, …

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Istinden

Istinden 🏔️ Overview Istinden is a steep and highly prominent mountain in the Lyngen Alps of Troms, northern Norway. Rising to approximately 1,494 meters (4,902 feet) above sea level, the mountain stands on the rugged Lyngen Peninsula, where sharp summits, deeply carved valleys, lingering snowfields, and fjords create some of Scandinavia’s most dramatic alpine scenery. …

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Store Lenangstind

Store Lenangstind | Store Lenangstinden 🏔️ Overview Store Lenangstind, also known as Store Lenangstinden, is one of the most distinctive mountains in the Lyngen Alps of northern Norway. Rising to approximately 1,624 meters (5,328 feet) above sea level, the mountain stands in Lyngen Municipality in Troms, on the rugged Lyngen Peninsula east of Tromsø. Although …

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