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The Alpine foothills, or Prealps (German: Voralpen; French: Préalpes; Italian: Prealpi; Slovene: Predalpe), may refer generally to any foothills at the base of the Alps in Europe. [1] They are the transition zone between the High Alps and the Swiss Plateau and the Bavarian Alpine Foreland in the north, as well as to the Pannonian Basin ...
Sentiero Azzurro is a trail along a rugged portion of coast on the Italian Riviera that connects the five towns known as the Cinque Terre in Liguria, Italy; Lombardy. Il Sentiero del Viandante The "Wayfarer's trail" from Lecco to Colico on the east side of Lake Como. Il Sentiero delle 4 Valli The "Four Valleys Path" between Lake Como and Lake ...
Wyoming's most populous municipality is the capital city Cheyenne with 65,132 residents, [1] and the largest municipality by land area is Casper, which spans 26.9 sq mi (70 km 2), while the smallest municipality in both categories is Lost Springs with 6 residents [1] and an area of 0.09 sq mi (0.23 km 2).
On the other hand, in the 1930s, when the current Italian 1:25.000 topographic map of the region was created, the Passo del Vannino, northwest of the Ofenhorn, was covered by the Lebendun glacier and was measured to be 2,754 m, while the much more recent Swisstopo map shows it to be bare and 2,717 m high.
A railroad with a tunnel 1.6 km (1 mi) long was built along the route of the pass in the mid-19th century. With a summit of 2,469 m (8,100 ft), the Great St Bernard Pass is one of the highest in the Alps, crossing the Italian-Swiss border east of the Pennine Alps along the flanks of Mont Blanc.
Map of the Aar basin. High Rhine. Aare. Limmat. Linth () . Lake Walen. Seeztal; Klöntal; Sernftal; Reuss. Lake Lucerne. Sarner Aa (Brünig Pass connects to the Aare ...
Wallis Alps: Italy/ Switzerland: 1.1 Lyskamm Eastern Summit: 61 Col to the Eastern Summit: 19 August 1861 William E. Hall and 13 companions West flank from Quintino Sella Hut (PD+) 12 Matterhorn: 4,478 Wallis Alps: Italy/ Switzerland: 13.9 Lyskamm Western Summit: 1,043 Col Durand: 14 July 1865 Croz, Taugwalder, Whymper, Hudson, Douglas and Hadow
For a list by height, see the list of mountains of the Alps. By descending to 1,500 m of prominence, this list includes all the Ultras of the Alps. Some famous peaks, such as the Matterhorn and Eiger , are not Ultras because they are connected to higher mountains by high cols and therefore do not achieve enough topographic prominence.