Nadelhorn
Sign in to saveThe Nadelhorn (4,327 m, 14,196 ft) is a mountain in the Pennine Alps in Switzerland. It is the highest point on the Nadelgrat, a high-level ridge running roughly north–south above the resort of Saas-Fee to the east, and the Mattertal to the west. Its three ridges join to form a sharp-pointed summit, which looks like a needle (German: Nadel) when seen from the north. The other summits on the Nadelgrat are the Stecknadelhorn, the Hohberghorn, the Dürrenhorn and the Lenzspitze.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Nadelhorn is referenced by 64 other articles, and connects out to Dom, Gorner Glacier and Switzerland.
The entry is geolocated on the map in mountain_region, across 2 mapped points.
Vinony files it under Alpine four-thousanders, Four-thousanders of Switzerland and Mountains of Switzerland.
Its subject is documented across 24 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Nadelhorn
- Mountain.photo
- Nadelgrat.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Nadelhorn (center) and Nadelgrat
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 4327
- Mountain.prominence
- 207 m ↓ Lenzjoch
- Mountain.isolation
- 1.7 km → Dom
- Mountain.parent_peak
- Dom
- Mountain.map
- Switzerland
- Mountain.map_caption
- Location in Switzerland
- Mountain.location
- Switzerland
- Mountain.range
- Pennine Alps
- Mountain.first_ascent
- 16 September 1858 by Franz Andenmatten, Baptiste Epiney, Aloys Supersaxo and J. Zimmermann
- Mountain.easiest_route
- Basic snow climb
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mountain
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Canton of Valais
- Elevation
- 4327
- Image
- Nadelhorn shadows.jpg
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- Commons category
- Nadelhorn
- topographic prominence
- 207
- topographic isolation
- 1.7
- parent peak
- Dom
- mountain range
- Mischabel group
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The Nadelhorn (4,327 m, 14,196 ft) is a mountain in the Pennine Alps in Switzerland. It is the highest point on the Nadelgrat, a high-level ridge running roughly north–south above the resort of Saas-Fee to the east, and the Mattertal to the west. Its three ridges join to form a sharp-pointed summit, which looks like a needle (German: Nadel) when seen from the north. The other summits on the Nadelgrat are the Stecknadelhorn, the Hohberghorn, the Dürrenhorn and the Lenzspitze.
It was first climbed by Franz Andenmatten, Baptiste Epiney, Aloys Supersaxo and J. Zimmermann on 16 September 1858.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nadelhorn” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations