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Key facts
- Elevation
- 4,048 m (13,281 ft)
- Prominence
- 2,236 m (7,336 ft) , Ranked 5th in the Alps
- Parent peak
- Mont Blanc
- Isolation
- 138 km (86 mi)
- Listing
- Canton high point , Ultra
- Language of name
- Romansh
- Location
- Grisons , Switzerland , (massif partially in Italy )
- Parent range
- Bernina
- Topo map
- Swisstopo 1277 Piz Bernina
- First ascent
- 13 September 1850 by Johann Coaz guided by Jon and Lorenz Ragut Tscharner
- Easiest route
- rock/ice climb
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Piz Bernina on the Swisstopo map of the same name Piz Bernina (from Romansh; Italian: Pizzo Bernina, Italian pronunciation: [ˈpittso berˈniːna]) is the highest mountain in the Eastern Alps, the highest point of the Bernina Range, and the highest peak in the Rhaetian Alps. It rises 4,048 m (13,281 ft) and is located south of Pontresina in the Bernina Region and near the major Alpine resort of St. Moritz, in the Engadin valley. It is also the most easterly mountain higher than 4,000 m (13,000 ft) in the Alps, the highest point of the Swiss canton of Grisons, and the fifth-most prominent peak in the Alps. Although the summit lies within Switzerland, the massif is on the border with Italy. The "shoulder" (4,020 m (13,190 ft)) known as La Spedla is the highest point in the Italian Lombardy region.
Piz Bernina is entirely surrounded by glaciers, of which the largest is the Morteratsch Glacier.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Piz Bernina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.