MONO - Looking - Gornergrat, Switzerland
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ToRo61
N 45° 58.994 E 007° 47.088
32T E 405875 N 5092902
The monoculars on the top of Gornergrat hill.
Waymark Code: WMP77P
Location: Valais, Switzerland
Date Posted: 07/13/2015
Views: 7
The Gornergrat (English: Gorner Ridge; 3,135 m) is a rocky ridge of the Pennine Alps, overlooking the Gorner Glacier south of Zermatt in Switzerland. It can be reached from Zermatt by the Gornergrat rack railway, the highest open-air railway in Europe.
The Gornergrat 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 a view of more than 20 four-thousand metre peaks, whose highest are Monte Rosa, Lyskamm, Matterhorn, Dom and Weisshorn.
Cost to Operate: 1 Fr
Primary Vista: more than 20 four-thousand metre peaks
Number of devices at the site: 2
Other Vistas at the location:
several small glaciers
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