Wasenhorn
Sign in to saveThe Wasenhorn (German, ; ) is a mountain of the Lepontine Alps, located on the border between Switzerland and Italy. It lies halfway between Brig (Swiss canton of Valais) and Varzo (Italian region of Piedmont), just north of Monte Leone, in the Simplon Pass area. Politically the Wasenhorn is split between the municipalities of Ried-Brig and Varzo.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Wasenhorn
- Mountain.photo
- Wasenhorn S.jpg
- Mountain.photo_size
- 285
- Mountain.photo_caption
- The south side of the Wasenhorn from the Monte Leone Hut
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 3246
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 476
- Mountain.topo_map
- Swiss Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
- Mountain.parent_peak
- Monte Leone
- Mountain.listing
- Alpine mountains above 3000 m
- Mountain.map
- Alps
- Mountain.map_caption
- Location in the Alps
- Mountain.subdivision2_type
- Canton/Region
- Mountain.parent
- Lepontine Alps
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The Wasenhorn (German, ; ) is a mountain of the Lepontine Alps, located on the border between Switzerland and Italy. It lies halfway between Brig (Swiss canton of Valais) and Varzo (Italian region of Piedmont), just north of Monte Leone, in the Simplon Pass area. Politically the Wasenhorn is split between the municipalities of Ried-Brig and Varzo.
The Simplon Tunnel runs into the massif of the Wasenhorn, below the subsidiary summit named Tunnelspitz ().
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wasenhorn” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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