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Aiguille du Croissant
The Aiguille du Croissant is a minor summit in the Grand Combin massif in the Pennine Alps.
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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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Aosta Valley
The Aosta Valley (Valle d'Aosta (official) or Val d'Aosta (usual); Vallée d'Aoste (official) or Val d'Aoste (usual); Val d'Outa (usual); Augschtalann or Ougstalland; Val d'Osta) is a mountainous autonomous region in northwestern Italy.
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Bagnes
Bagnes is a municipality in the district of Entremont in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
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Boveire Glacier
The Boveire Glacier (Glacier de Boveire) is a 2 km long glacier (2005) situated in the Pennine Alps in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
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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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Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville
Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville (26 February 1814 – 10 October 1876) was a geologist and meteorologist.
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Combin de Boveire
The Combin de Boveire is a mountain of the Pennine Alps, lotated in the Grand Combin massif in Valais.
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Combin de Corbassière
The Combin de Corbassière is a mountain in the Pennine Alps, located south of Fionnay in the canton of Valais.
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Combin de la Tsessette
The Combin de la Tsessette is the third highest summit in the Grand Combin massif.
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Combin de Valsorey
The Combin de Valsorey is the second highest summit in the Grand Combin massif.
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Corbassière Glacier
The Corbassière Glacier (Glacier de Corbassière in French) is a valley glacier in the Grand Combin massif in the Pennine Alps in southwestern Valais.
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Dent Blanche
The Dent Blanche is a mountain in the Pennine Alps, lying in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
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Dom (mountain)
The Dom is a mountain of the Pennine Alps, located between Randa and Saas-Fee in the canton of Valais.
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Entremont District
thumb The district of Entremont is a district in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
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Fenêtre de Durand
The Fenêtre de Durand is an Alpine pass connecting Switzerland and Italy.
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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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Gottlieb Samuel Studer
Gottlieb Samuel Studer (5 August 1804, Langnau im Emmental – 22 December 1890, Vienna) was a Swiss mountaineer, notary public and draughtsman.
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Grand Tavé
The Grand Tavé (3,158 m) is a mountain of the Swiss Pennine Alps, located south of Fionnay in the canton of Valais.
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Grande Tête de By
The Grande Tête de By is a mountain of the Pennine Alps, located on the border between Italy and Switzerland.
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John Ball (naturalist)
John Ball (20 August 1818 – 21 October 1889) was an Irish politician, naturalist and Alpine traveller.
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List of Alpine four-thousanders
This list contains all of the 128 summits and subsidiary tops of or more above sea level in the Alps in France, Italy and Switzerland as defined by the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (UIAA).
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Main chain of the Alps
The main chain of the Alps, also called the Alpine divide is the central line of mountains that forms the water divide of the range.
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Massif
In geology, a massif is a section of a planet's crust that is demarcated by faults or flexures.
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Mont Durand Glacier
The Mont Durand Glacier (Glacier du Mont Durand) is a 5.9 km long glacier (2005) situated in the Grand Combin massif, Pennine Alps, in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
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Mont Gelé (Bagnes)
Mont Gelé (3,518 m) is a mountain of the Pennine Alps, located on the border between Switzerland (canton of Valais) and Italy (region of Aosta Valley).
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Mont Vélan
Mont Vélan is a mountain of the Pennine Alps, located on the border between Switzerland and Italy.
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Monte Rosa
The Monte Rosa (or synonymously used as a pleonasm: Monte Rosa massif (massiccio del Monte Rosa; Monte Rosa-Massiv; massif du Mont Rose) is a mountain massif located in the eastern part of the Pennine Alps. It is located between Switzerland (Valais) and Italy (Piedmont and Aosta Valley). Monte Rosa is the second highest mountain in the Alps and western Europe.John Ball, A Guide to the Western Alps, pp. 308-314 Monte Rosa is a huge ice-covered mountain in the Alps, located on the watershed between central and southern Europe. Its main summit, named Dufourspitze in honor of the surveyor Guillaume-Henri Dufour, culminates at above sea level and is followed by the five nearly equally high subsidiary summits of Dunantspitze, Grenzgipfel, Nordend, Zumsteinspitze and Signalkuppe. Monte Rosa is the highest mountain of both Switzerland and the Pennine Alps and is also the second-highest mountain of the Alps and Europe outside the Caucasus. The north-west side of the central Monte Rosa massif, with its enormous ice slopes and seracs, constitutes the boundary and upper basin of the large Gorner Glacier, which descends towards Zermatt and merges with its nowadays much larger tributary, the Grenzgletscher (Border Glacier), right below the Monte Rosa Hut on the lower end of the visible western wing. The Grenzgletscher is an impressive glacier formation between the western wing of the mountain and Liskamm, a ridge on its southwestern side on the Swiss-Italian border. On the eastern side, in Italy, the mountain falls away in an almost vertical wall of granite and ice, the biggest in Europe, overlooking Macugnaga and several smaller glaciers. Monte Rosa was studied by pioneering geologists and explorers, including Leonardo da Vinci in the late fifteenth century and Horace-Bénédict de Saussure in the late eighteenth century. Following a long series of attempts beginning in the early nineteenth century, Monte Rosa's summit, then still called Höchste Spitze (Highest Peak), was first reached in 1855 from Zermatt by a party of eight climbers led by three guides. The great east wall was first climbed in 1872, from Macugnaga. Each summer a large number of climbers set out from the Monte Rosa Hut on the mountain's west wing for one of its summits via the normal route or for the Margherita Hut on the Signalkuppe (Punta Gnifetti), used as a research station. Many tourists and hikers also come each year to the Gornergrat on the north-west side of the massif, to see the panorama that extends over the giants of the Alps, from Monte Rosa to the Matterhorn.
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Normal route
A normal route or normal way (Voie Normale; Normalweg) is the most frequently used route for ascending and descending a mountain peak.
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Ollomont
Ollomont (Valdôtain: Alomón) is a town and comune in the Aosta Valley region of north-west Italy.
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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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Petit Combin
The Petit Combin is a mountain of the Swiss Pennine Alps, located between the valleys of Entremont and Bagnes in the canton of Valais.
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Rhône
The Rhône (Le Rhône; Rhone; Walliser German: Rotten; Rodano; Rôno; Ròse) is one of the major rivers of Europe and has twice the average discharge of the Loire (which is the longest French river), rising in the Rhône Glacier in the Swiss Alps at the far eastern end of the Swiss canton of Valais, passing through Lake Geneva and running through southeastern France.
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Serac
A serac (originally from Swiss French sérac) is a block or column of glacial ice, often formed by intersecting crevasses on a glacier.
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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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Tournelon Blanc
The Tournelon Blanc is a mountain of the Swiss Pennine Alps, overlooking the lake of Mauvoisin in the canton of Valais.
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Ultra-prominent peak
An ultra-prominent peak, or Ultra for short, is defined as a mountain summit with a topographic prominence of or more.
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Valsorey Hut
The Valsorey Hut (Cabane de Valsorey) is a mountain hut of the Swiss Alpine Club, located south of Bourg-Saint-Pierre in the canton of Valais.
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Verbier
Verbier is a village located in south-western Switzerland in the canton of Valais.
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Weisshorn
The Weisshorn (German, lit. white peak/mountain) is a major peak of the Swiss Alps, culminating at above sea level.
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William Mathews (mountaineer)
William Mathews (1828–1901) was an English mountaineer, botanist, land agent and surveyor, who first proposed the formation of the Alpine Club of London in 1857.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Combin
