Jan 21 2024
Furgghorn 🏔️ Overview Furgghorn is a 3,451-meter (11,322-foot) mountain in the Pennine Alps, rising directly on the border between Switzerland and Italy. Known in Italian as Cima del Breuil and in French as Tête du Breuil, it occupies the high ridge southeast of the Matterhorn between Furggen and the Theodulhorn. Although relatively small compared with …
Jan 21 2024
Furggen 🏔️ Overview Furggen is a 3,492-meter (11,457-foot) summit on the border between Switzerland and Italy in the Pennine Alps. Also known as Furgggrat or Furggrat, it forms the highest point of the rugged ridge extending southeast from the Matterhorn toward the Theodulhorn and Theodul Pass. Although Furggen is dwarfed by the 4,478-meter Matterhorn immediately …
Jan 21 2024
Pic Tyndall 🏔️ Overview Pic Tyndall is a 4,241-meter (13,914-foot) subsidiary summit of the Matterhorn, rising on the mountain’s famous southwest ridge directly along the border between Switzerland and Italy. Although it has only about 21 meters of topographic prominence, Pic Tyndall occupies an extraordinary place in Alpine history. Before anyone reached the summit of …
Jan 21 2024
Picco Muzio | Muzio Peak 🏔️ Overview Picco Muzio is a dramatic subsidiary summit of the Matterhorn rising along the mountain’s formidable Furggen Ridge in the Pennine Alps. Traditionally listed at 4,187 meters (13,737 feet), it is one of the lesser-known Alpine summits exceeding 4,000 meters. Modern high-resolution topographic data places the summit slightly higher, …
Jan 21 2024
Pioneer Peak 🏔️ Overview Pioneer Peak is a dramatic 6,398-foot (1,950-meter) mountain rising almost directly from the Knik River lowlands in Alaska’s western Chugach Mountains. Located southeast of Palmer in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, the peak is one of the most recognizable landmarks of the Matanuska Valley. Its steep northern face, twin-summit profile, and enormous local …
Jan 21 2024
Mount Fairweather | Tsalxaan 🏔️ Overview Mount Fairweather is a spectacular 15,324-foot (4,671-meter) mountain rising on the international border between Alaska and British Columbia. It is the highest mountain in British Columbia, the highest summit in the Fairweather Range, and one of the most topographically prominent mountains in North America. Few mountains combine extreme elevation …
Jan 20 2024
Batura II 🏔️ Overview Batura II is a towering subsidiary summit of the Batura Sar massif in the western Karakoram of northern Pakistan. Traditionally listed at 7,762 meters (25,466 feet), it forms part of the immense Batura Wall in Gilgit-Baltistan’s Hunza District. Also known as Hunza Kunji, Batura II remained one of the world’s highest …
Jan 20 2024
Moscow Peak | Moskva Peak | Pik Moskva 🏔️ Overview Moscow Peak is a towering 6,785-meter (22,260-foot) mountain in the western Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan. Also known as Pik Moskva or Qullai Moskva, it is the highest summit of the Peter I Range and one of the most prominent mountains in the western Pamirs. Rising in …
Jan 20 2024
Pik Agasis | Pik Agashidze 🏔️ Overview Pik Agasis is a remote high mountain in the Peter I Range of Tajikistan’s Pamir Mountains. It is commonly listed in international geographic databases at 5,877 meters (19,281 feet) and is frequently credited with approximately 1,597 meters (5,240 feet) of topographic prominence, placing it among the world’s ultra-prominent …
Jan 20 2024
Kukurtlu Dome 🏔️ Overview Kukurtlu Dome is a 4,978-meter (16,332-foot) subsidiary summit on the western side of the Mount Elbrus massif in the Greater Caucasus of southern Russia. Rising in Karachay-Cherkessia, it forms part of the broad, glaciated western shoulder descending from Elbrus’s 5,642-meter West Summit. Topographically, Kukurtlu Dome is barely independent from Elbrus. It …
