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Dent Blanche

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The Dent Blanche is a mountain in the Pennine Alps, lying in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. [1]

29 relations: Alpine Club (UK), Alps, Canton of Valais, Cartography of Switzerland, Dent d'Hérens, Dorothy Pilley Richards, Evolène, Ferpècle Glacier, Google Earth, Grand Mountet Hut, I. A. Richards, Matterhorn, Mattertal, Mountain, Ober Gabelhorn, Pennine Alps, Peter Taugwalder, St. Niklaus, Switzerland, Swiss Alps, Swisstopo, Switzerland, Topographic prominence, Val d'Anniviers, Val d'Hérens, Yvette Vaucher, Zermatt, Zinal, Zinal Glacier, Zmutt Glacier.

Alpine Club (UK)

The Alpine Club was founded in London in 1857 and is the world's first mountaineering club.

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Alps

The Alps (Alpes; Alpen; Alpi; Alps; Alpe) are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe,The Caucasus Mountains are higher, and the Urals longer, but both lie partly in Asia.

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Canton of Valais

The canton of Valais (Kanton Wallis) is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland, situated in the southwestern part of the country, around the valley of the Rhône from its headwaters to Lake Geneva, separating the Pennine Alps from the Bernese Alps.

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Cartography of Switzerland

Switzerland has had its current boundaries since 1815, but maps of the Old Swiss Confederacy were drawn since the 16th century.

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Dent d'Hérens

The Dent d'Hérens (4,174 m) is a mountain in the Pennine Alps, lying on the border between Italy and Switzerland.

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Dorothy Pilley Richards

Dorothy Pilley Richards (16 September 1894 in Camberwell, London – 24 September 1986 in Cambridge) was a prominent female mountaineer.

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Evolène

Evolène is a municipality in the district of Hérens in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

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Ferpècle Glacier

The Ferpècle Glacier (Glacier de Ferpècle) is a long glacier (2005) situated in the Pennine Alps in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

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Google Earth

Google Earth is a computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based on satellite imagery.

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Grand Mountet Hut

The Grand Mountet Hut (2,886 m) (French: Cabane du Grand Mountet) is a mountain hut located in the Pennine Alps near Zinal in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

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I. A. Richards

Ivor Armstrong Richards (26 February 1893 – 7 September 1979), known as I. A. Richards, was an English educator, literary critic, and rhetorician whose work contributed to the foundations of the New Criticism, a formalist movement in literary theory, which emphasized the close reading of a literary text, especially poetry, in an effort to discover how a work of literature functions as a self-contained, self-referential æsthetic object.

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Matterhorn

The Matterhorn (Matterhorn; Cervino; Mont Cervin) is a mountain of the Alps, straddling the main watershed and border between Switzerland and Italy.

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Mattertal

The Matter Valley (German: Mattertal, or sometimes Nikolaital) is located in southwestern Switzerland, south of the Rhone valley in the canton of Valais.

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Mountain

A mountain is a large landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area, usually in the form of a peak.

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Ober Gabelhorn

The Ober Gabelhorn (4063 m) is a mountain in the Pennine Alps in Switzerland, located between Zermatt and Zinal.

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Pennine Alps

The Pennine Alps (Walliser Alpen, Alpes Pennines, Alpi Pennine, Alpes Poeninae), also known as the Valais Alps, are a mountain range in the western part of the Alps.

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Peter Taugwalder

Peter Taugwalder (4 April 1820 – 10 July 1888) was a Swiss mountaineer and guide.

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St. Niklaus, Switzerland

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Swiss Alps

The Alpine region of Switzerland, conventionally referred to as the Swiss Alps (Schweizer Alpen, Alpes suisses, Alpi svizzere, Alps svizras), represents a major natural feature of the country and is, along with the Swiss Plateau and the Swiss portion of the Jura Mountains, one of its three main physiographic regions.

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Swisstopo

Swisstopo is the official name for the Swiss Federal Office of Topography (in German: Bundesamt für Landestopografie; French: Office fédéral de topographie; Italian: Ufficio federale di topografia; Romansh: Uffizi federal da topografia), Switzerland's national mapping agency.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Topographic prominence

In topography, prominence characterizes the height of a mountain or hill's summit by the vertical distance between it and the lowest contour line encircling it but containing no higher summit within it.

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Val d'Anniviers

The val d'Anniviers (in German Eifschtal) is a Swiss alpine valley, situated in the district of Sierre in Valais, which extends south of the Rhône Valley, on the northern slopes of the Pennine Alps.

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Val d'Hérens

Val d'Hérens is an alpine valley in the Valais canton of Switzerland.

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Yvette Vaucher

Yvette Vaucher (née Pilliard; born 1929) is a Swiss mountaineer and parachutist.

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Zermatt

Zermatt is a municipality in the district of Visp in the German-speaking section of the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

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Zinal

Zinal is a village in Switzerland, located in the municipality of Anniviers in the canton of Valais.

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Zinal Glacier

The Zinal Glacier (Glacier de Zinal) is a long glacier (2005) situated in the Pennine Alps in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

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Zmutt Glacier

The Zmutt Glacier (Zmuttgletscher) is a long glacier (2005) situated in the Pennine Alps in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dent_Blanche

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