Dufourspitze
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The Dufourspitze is the highest peak of Monte Rosa, an ice-covered mountain massif in the Alps. Dufourspitze is the highest mountain of both Switzerland and the Pennine Alps and is also the second-hig
From the peak to the southeast towards Italy, the Dunantspitze in the rear hides the 18-metre lower Grenzgipfel (English: Border Summit)
Nordend and Dufourspitze
View from Dufourspitze towards the Grenzgletscher
Monte Rosa from Liskamm: Dufourspitze (left), Zumsteinspitze, Signalkuppe and Parrotspitze (right)
Great St Bernard Pass
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The Great St Bernard Pass is the third highest road pass in Switzerland, at an elevation of 2,469 m. It connects Martigny in the canton of Valais in Switzerland with Aosta in the region Aosta Valley i
Dufourspitze
…Italy, from where Monte Rosa is well visible, reaches over 4,500 metres (15,000 ft). Monte Rosa has a topographic prominence of 2,165 m (7,103 ft), the Great St Bernard Pass being the lowest col between it and the culminating point of the Alps. A 2000 survey, involving universities and the offices of cartography of Italy…
View of the pass and hospice from Great St Bernard Lake with Mont Vélan in background
View of the pass from the international border. A Swiss Customs post is visible on the left
Great St Bernard Hospice at the top of the Great St Bernard Pass, occupying both sides of the modern road. The old Roman road, serving as hiking path, is visible on the left.
St Bernard dog with barrel