Grenzgipfel
Sign in to saveThe Grenzgipfel (4,618 m) (German for Border Summit) is a peak of Monte Rosa Massif (Pennine Alps), located on the border between Italy and Switzerland.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Grenzgipfel
- Mountain.photo
- DufourspitzeFromNordendAndNames.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- The Grenzgipfel to the left of the Dunantspitze (formerly called Ostspitze) and the Dufourspitze (seen from Nordend)
- Mountain.translation
- Border Summit
- Mountain.native_name_lang
- de
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 4618
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 10
- Mountain.parent_peak
- Dufourspitze
- Mountain.range
- Pennine Alps
- Mountain.listing
- Italian region high point
- Mountain.location
- Italian (Piedmont) - Swiss (Valais) border
- Mountain.map
- Alps
- Mountain.map_caption
- Location in the Alps
- Mountain.topo_map
- Swiss Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
- Mountain.first_ascent
- 12 August 1848 by Johann Madutz and Matthias zum Taugwald.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mountain
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Canton of Valais
- Elevation
- 4618
- Image
- MonteRosaWestseite gesehenVomGornergrat.JPG
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- topographic prominence
- 10
- topographic isolation
- 0.1
- parent peak
- Dufourspitze
- mountain range
- Monte Rosa Massif
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- Grenzgipfel
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The Grenzgipfel (4,618 m) (German for Border Summit) is a peak of Monte Rosa Massif (Pennine Alps), located on the border between Italy and Switzerland.
The Grenzgipfel is the highest summit on the Italian side of the Monte Rosa massif and the highest point of the entire border between Italy and Switzerland; it is also the culminating point of the Italian region of Piedmont and of the Ticino river drainage basin.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Grenzgipfel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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