Nov 24 2024
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
🏔️ 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 🏔️ 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 🏔️ 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 21 2024
🏔️ 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 …
Nov 21 2024
Piz Bernina 🏔️ Overview Piz Bernina is the great high point of the Bernina Range and one of the defining mountains of the Swiss Alps. Rising to approximately 4,049 meters (13,285 feet), it is the highest mountain in the Eastern Alps, the highest summit in Switzerland’s canton of Graubünden, and the only independent 4,000-meter peak …
Nov 20 2024
La Spedla | Punta Perrucchetti 🏔️ Overview La Spedla is a small but geographically significant 4,020-meter (13,188-foot) summit on the southern ridge of Piz Bernina, the highest mountain in the Eastern Alps. Also known as Punta Perrucchetti, Punta Generale Perrucchetti, or the Italian La Spalla, meaning “the shoulder,” it sits directly on the border between …
Nov 19 2024
Piz Zupò 🏔️ Overview Piz Zupò is a spectacular high Alpine summit rising to approximately 3,996 meters (13,109 feet) in the Bernina Range on the border between Switzerland and Italy. Standing just a few meters short of the celebrated 4,000-meter mark, it is the second-highest mountain in the Bernina Range, surpassed only by neighboring Piz …
Nov 18 2024
Ortles | Ortler 🏔️ Overview Ortles, better known by its German name Ortler, is one of the great mountains of the Italian Alps. Rising to 3,905 meters (12,812 feet) in South Tyrol, it is the highest mountain in the Ortler Alps and the highest point in the province of South Tyrol. The mountain towers above …
Nov 17 2024
Gran Zebrù | Königspitze Gran Zebrù, known in German as Königspitze, is one of the great glaciated mountains of the Italian Alps. Rising to 3,851 meters (12,635 feet), its steep pyramidal profile stands on the border between South Tyrol and Lombardy, immediately southeast of the higher Ortles. Although Gran Zebrù is only the second-highest summit …
