Category: Peaks & Mountains
From gentle panorama peaks to the great four-thousanders: this is all about the summits of the Alps. We present striking mountains, their history and the finest views.
The Gran Paradiso, at 4,061 m, is the only four-thousander lying entirely on Italian soil. The protected area surrounding it was established in 1922 as Italy's first national park, originally to save the Alpine ibex from extinction. Today the park is one of the best places in the Alps to…
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Mont Blanc, in Italian Monte Bianco, is at around 4,805 m the highest mountain in the Alps and in Central Europe. On the Italian side above Courmayeur the modern revolving cable car Skyway Monte Bianco opens up the glacier world as far as the Punta Helbronner at 3,466 m, with…
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The Pala group is the largest massif of the Dolomites and impresses with a wide, moon-like high plateau at around 2,600 m, ringed by rugged peaks. The cable car from San Martino di Castrozza to the Rosetta opens up this high plain comfortably. The area belongs to the UNESCO World…
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The Brenta group is the only Dolomite massif west of the Adige and part of the Adamello-Brenta Nature Park. It is famous for its bold towers and for the Bocchette via ferratas, which rank among the most classic in the Alps. The starting point is the fashionable resort of Madonna…
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The Piz Bernina, at 4,049 m, is the highest peak of the Eastern Alps and the only four-thousander east of Monte Rosa. It lies in the glaciated Bernina group on the border between the Engadin and the Italian Valtellina. Famous is the Biancograt, an elegant firn ridge regarded as one…
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The Schilthorn (2,970 m) carries on its summit the revolving restaurant Piz Gloria, which became world-famous through the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). From the viewing terrace the panorama spans around 200 peaks as far as Mont Blanc and into the Black Forest. The cable car…
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