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The 4000m Alps

   

The Major European Alpine Peaks

 - those over 4000 metres in height

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Mont Blanc
Monte Rosa
 

 

Dom

 

Liskamm , 4527m

 

Weisshorn

 

Taschhorn and Dom above Saas Fe

 

Matterhorn ( Il Cervino )

 

Mont Maudit

 

Dent Blanche 4357m

 

Nadelhorn 4327m

 

 Gran Combin 4314m

 

Lenzspitze 4294m

 

Finsteraarhorn

 

Mont Blanc du Tacul 4248m

 

Castor 4228m

 

Zinalrothorn 4221m

 

Hohberghorn 4219m

 

 

 

Grandes Jorasses 4208m

 

 Alphubel 4206m

 

Rimpfischhorn 4199m

 

Aletschhorn 4195m

 

Strahlhorn 4190m

 

Dent d'Herens 4171m

 

Breithorn 4164m

 

Jungfrau

 

Bishorn 4153m

 

Aiguille Verte 4122m

 

Aiguille Blanche de Peuterey 4112m

 

Barre des Ecrins 4102m

 

Monch

 

Pollux 4092m

 

Schreckhorn

 

Ober Gabelhorn 4063m

 

Gran Paradiso

 

Aiguille de Bionnassay 4052m

 

Piz Bernina 4049m

 

Gross Fiescherhorn 4049m

 

Gross Grunhorn 4044m

 

Lauteraarhorn 4042m

 

Durrenhorn 4035m

 

Allalihorn 4027m

 

Weissmies 4023m

 

Dome de Rochefort 4015m

 

Dent du Geant 4013m

 

Lagginhorn 4010m

 

Aiguille de Rochefort 4001m

 

Les Droites 4000m

 


References:-


 

This list contains 128 summits and subsidiary tops of 4,000 metres ( 13,123 ft ) or higher above sea level
in the Alps of France, Italy and Switzerland as defined by the Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme (UIAA).
The list contains 82 'official summits' of 4,000m or over, with the inclusion of a further 46 'lesser summits' in the enlarged list.
A list of independent peaks with a prominence greater than 100m contains just 52 mountains.

 


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