Also known as Festihorn
mountain in the Pennine Alps
Key facts
- Elevation
- 4,546 m (14,915 ft)
- Prominence
- 1057 m ↓ Neues Weisstor
- Parent peak
- Monte Rosa
- Isolation
- 16.8 km → Nordend
- Listing
- Seven Third Summits
- Location
- Valais , Switzerland
- Parent range
- Pennine Alps
- Topo map
- Swisstopo 1328 Randa
- First ascent
- 1858 by John Llewelyn Davies guided by Johann Zumtaugwald, Johann Krönig and Hieronymous Brantschen
- Easiest route
- North flank (PD)
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Wikidata facts
- Elevation
- 4546
- Image
- Dom of Mischabel.jpg
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- topographic prominence
- 1057
- topographic isolation
- 16.8
- Commons category
- Dom (mountain)
- native label
- Dom
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The Dom is a mountain of the Pennine Alps, located between Randa and Saas-Fee in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. With a height of 4,546 m (14,915 ft), it is the seventh highest summit in the Alps, overall. Based on prominence, it can be regarded as the third highest mountain in the Alps, and the second highest in Switzerland, after Monte Rosa. The Dom is the main summit of the Mischabel group (German: Mischabelhörner), which is the highest massif lying entirely in Switzerland.
The Dom is noteworthy for its 'normal route' of ascent having the greatest vertical height gain of all the alpine 4000 metre peaks, and none of that route's 3,100 metres of height can be achieved using mechanical means.
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