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The Swiss Alps and Switzerland enjoy an extensive transport network. Virtually every mountain village can be reached by public transport, either by rail, bus, funicular, cable car, or usually a combination of them. The main companies of the coherently integrated public transport system are: Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Satellite image of the Alps, March 2007 Folded rock layers exposed in the Swiss Alps. The Alps form part of a Cenozoic orogenic belt of mountain chains, called the Alpide belt, that stretches through southern Europe and Asia from the Atlantic all the way to the Himalayas. This belt of mountain chains was formed during the Alpine orogeny.
George Lowe (born 1944) US, alpinist and rock climber, notable for first ascents in the US and Canadian Rockies, Alps, Andes, and Himalayas; Jeff Lowe (1950–2018) US, made over 1000 first ascents in the US and Canadian Rockies, Alps and Himalayas; Fritz Luchsinger (1921–1983) Switzerland, first ascent of Lhotse, in 1956
This is a list of the highest mountains of Switzerland.This list only includes summits above 3,600 metres (11,811 ft) with a topographic prominence of at least 30 metres. . Note that this list includes many secondary summits that are typically not considered mountains (in the strict sense of the term) but that are mainly of climbing intere
Ultras of the Alps in the Peakbagger database; Eberhard Jurgalski, the complete table of summits in the Alps separated by 590 metres of re-ascent (2004-2005, 2008). Richard Goedeke: Giganten der Alpen: Die 20 prominentesten Berge der Alpen. Bruckmann Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-7654-4381-7
The two main mountain ranges are the Alps (south and east) and the Jura (north and west), separated by the Swiss Plateau which also includes a large number of hills. Topographically, the three most important summits of Switzerland are those of Monte Rosa (most elevated), the Finsteraarhorn (most prominent) and Piz Bernina (most isolated).
While smaller groups within the Alps may be easily defined by the passes on either side, defining larger units can be problematic. A traditional divide exists between the Western Alps and the Eastern Alps, which uses the Splügen Pass (Italian: Passo dello Spluga) on the Swiss-Italian border, together with the Rhine to the north and Lake Como in the south as the defining features.
Canadian Rockies: 51°N 2,400 7,900 Tatra Mountains: 49°N 1,600 5,200 Olympic Mountains, Washington, United States 47°N 1,500 4,900 Heavy winter snowpack buries young trees until late summer Swiss Alps: 47°N 2,200 7,200 [36] Mount Katahdin, Maine, United States 46°N 1,150 3,800 Eastern Alps, Austria, Italy 46°N 1,750 5,700