Gornergrat
Sign in to saveThe Gornergrat (; ) is a rocky ridge of the Pennine Alps, overlooking the Gorner Glacier south-east of Zermatt in Switzerland. It can be reached from Zermatt by the Gornergrat rack railway (GGB), the highest open-air railway in Europe. Between the Gornergrat railway station () and the summit is the Kulm Hotel (). In the late 1960s two astronomical observatories were installed in the two towers of the Kulmhotel Gornergrat. The project “Stellarium Gornergrat” is hosted in the Gornergrat South Observatory.
Key facts
- Mountain.language
- German
- Mountain.name
- Gornergrat
- Mountain.translation
- Gorner Ridge
- Mountain.highest
- unnamed
- Mountain.topo
- Swiss Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
- Mountain.photo
- Gornergrat.jpg
- Mountain.photo_size
- 285
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Summit of Gornergrat with observatory
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 3135
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 50
- Mountain.parent_peak
- Monte Rosa
- Mountain.map
- Switzerland
- Mountain.map_caption
- Location in Switzerland
- Mountain.location
- Valais
- Mountain.country
- Switzerland
- Mountain.range
- Pennine Alps
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- Elevation
- 3135
- Image
- Klein Matterhorn looking toward Gornergrat.jpg
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The Gornergrat (; ) is a rocky ridge of the Pennine Alps, overlooking the Gorner Glacier south-east of Zermatt in Switzerland. It can be reached from Zermatt by the Gornergrat rack railway (GGB), the highest open-air railway in Europe. Between the Gornergrat railway station () and the summit is the Kulm Hotel (). In the late 1960s two astronomical observatories were installed in the two towers of the Kulmhotel Gornergrat. The project “Stellarium Gornergrat” is hosted in the Gornergrat South Observatory.
==Overview== It is located about three kilometers east of Zermatt in the Swiss canton of Valais. The Gornergrat is located between the Gornergletscher and Findelgletscher and offers panoramic views of 29 mountains above 4,000 m (13,123 ft), whose highest are Dufourspitze (in the large Monte Rosa massif), Liskamm, Matterhorn, Dom and Weisshorn.
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