Geisshorn
Sign in to saveThe Geisshorn is a mountain of the Bernese Alps, overlooking the Aletsch Glacier in the canton of Valais. Together with its Northeast-Summit Sattelhorn (3724 m), it appears as a Doublepeak. Northwest of the Sattelhorn, the slightly lower ridge of the Vorderes Geisshorn (3632 m) leads to the south-ridge of the Aletschhorn.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Geisshorn
- Mountain.photo
- Aletsch fg04.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Geisshorn (center right) and Aletschhorn (right), above the Aletsch Glacier
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 3740
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 158
- Mountain.parent_peak
- Aletschhorn
- Mountain.map
- Switzerland
- Mountain.map_caption
- Location in Switzerland
- Mountain.location
- Valais, Switzerland
- Mountain.range
- Bernese Alps
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mountain
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Canton of Valais
- Elevation
- 3740
- Image
- Aletsch fg04.jpg
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- topographic prominence
- 158
- parent peak
- Aletschhorn
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The Geisshorn is a mountain of the Bernese Alps, overlooking the Aletsch Glacier in the canton of Valais. Together with its Northeast-Summit Sattelhorn (3724 m), it appears as a Doublepeak. Northwest of the Sattelhorn, the slightly lower ridge of the Vorderes Geisshorn (3632 m) leads to the south-ridge of the Aletschhorn.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Geisshorn” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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