Monte Rosa

Regina Margherita Hut on Signalkuppe in August 2002.

Mountain massif in the eastern part of the Pennine Alps.

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Aosta Valley

Mountainous autonomous region in northwestern Italy.

A view from refuge Champillon, Valpelline

The Astronomical Observatory of the Aosta Valley, in Saint-Barthélemy (Nus).

Blue Lake<ref>Lovevda.it</ref> and the Matterhorn

The prehistoric site near Chenal castle, Montjovet, rich in petroglyphs

A view from refuge Albert Deffeyes, La Thuile

Male Alpine Ibex in Gran Paradiso National Park

Alpine marmot in Gran Paradiso National Park

The Aosta Valley is an Alpine valley which with its tributary valleys includes the Italian slopes of Mont Blanc, Monte Rosa, Gran Paradiso and the Matterhorn; its highest peak is Mont Blanc (4810 m).

Piedmont

Region in northwest Italy, one of the 20 regions of the country.

A Montferrat landscape, with the distant Alps in the background.

The campus of the Polytechnic University of Turin.

Rice fields between Novara and Vercelli.

The Juventus Stadium in Turin is the home of Juventus F.C., throughout the years the most successful Serie A club.

The Palazzina di caccia of Stupinigi, in Nichelino, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The Sacra di San Michele, a symbol of Piedmont

Cartier: Mackay emerald and diamond necklac

Piedmont is surrounded on three sides by the Alps, including Monviso, where the Po rises, and Monte Rosa.

Valais

One of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation.

Valère Basilica dominating the Rhône Valley. By the 12th century, the bishops of Sion began building churches and castles in Sion to represent their power and administer their estates.

The Rhône Valley near Pfynwald. Note the vineyards, pines, and steppic vegetation that are typical of dry Central Valais

The Aletsch Glacier, largest in the Alps

The Weisshorn, one of the highest peaks of Valais

Predominantly Catholic, the canton includes numerous churches and Alpine chapels (here Maria zum Schnee in Bettmeralp)

The Grande Dixence is one of the world's largest dams

St. Gingolph is one of the only two ports on Lake Geneva, and the terminus of the Tonkin Railway

BLS train descending the summit line of the Lötschberg Railway

A postbus waiting on the summit of the Simplon Pass

People gathering at the national cow fighting final

A Brisolée served with local products and wine

A major wine region, the canton is simultaneously one of the driest regions of Switzerland in its central Rhône valley and among the wettest, having large amounts of snow and rain upon the highest peaks found in Switzerland, such as Monte Rosa and the Finsteraarhorn.

Pennine Alps

The Pennine Alps (Walliser Alpen, Alpes valaisannes, Alpi Pennine, Alpes Poeninae), also known as the Valais Alps, are a mountain range in the western part of the Alps.

Aerial view of the Pennine Alps from a plane above Mont Blanc (Monte Bianco)

From Mont Vélan, the first high summit east of St Bernard Pass, the chain rarely goes below 3000 metres and contains many four-thousanders such as Matterhorn or Monte Rosa.

Zermatt

Municipality in the district of Visp in the German-speaking section of the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

View of Zermatt with the main church (from the east side)

View of the centre of Zermatt (from the west side)

Cable car heading towards Klein Matterhorn

Poster by Emil Cardinaux advertising Zermatt (1908)

Touristic public spyglass pointed to Matterhorn.

Ski area on the Breithorn plateau, 3,900 m

View of Zermatt from the cable car to Furi

Zermatt aerial panorama facing the Materhorn 160622

Zermatt is almost completely surrounded by the high mountains of the Pennine Alps including Monte Rosa (specifically its tallest peak, named Dufourspitze), Switzerland's highest peak at 4634 m above sea level.

Matterhorn

Mountain of the Alps, straddling the main watershed and border between Switzerland and Italy.

View on the south and east faces and the area of the Theodul Pass between Italy (left) and Switzerland (right)

The Matterhorn on the National Map of Switzerland

View from the summit towards Monte Rosa with the valleys of Mattertal (left) and Valtournenche (right)

Different layers of rock can be seen: the lower part is sedimentary rock (brown); the middle part is greenschist from the oceanic crust. The peak itself is gneiss from the African continent.

Plaque on the front wall of the Monte Rosa Hotel, commemorating the first ascent by Edward Whymper

The Carrel Hut (3,830 m) on the Lion ridge

The Matterhorn seen from the Valtournenche Valley

The first ascent of the Matterhorn, by Gustave Doré

The first descent of the Matterhorn, by Gustave Doré

South-west side of the Matterhorn (Tyndall shoulder on the foreground)

The Matterhorn by Edward Theodore Compton, 1879

Aerial photography by Eduard Spelterini in 1910

Aerial panorama of the Matterhorn from the Gornergrat 170622

It is a large, near-symmetric pyramidal peak in the extended Monte Rosa area of the Pennine Alps, whose summit is 4478 m high, making it one of the highest summits in the Alps and Europe.

Alps

The Alps are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe, stretching approximately 750 mi across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): France, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, and Slovenia.

The Dolomites (Italy) are a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

An "Alp" refers to a high elevation pasture frequented only in summer. It often includes several huts and small places of worship (here the Alpe Bardughè in Ticino).

The Alps extend in an arc from France in the south and west to Slovenia in the east, and from Monaco in the south to Germany in the north.

Aerial view of the Pennine Alps, the second-highest range of the Alps

A typical alpine village in the Tuxertal valley of Tyrol, Austria

Teufelsbrücke (Devil's Bridge) on the route to the Gotthard Pass; the currently used bridge from 1958 over the first drivable bridge from 1830

The col du Mont-Cenis (2081 m) at the centre left of the picture gives access to a large alpine lake, and further away to the Italian peninsula 12 km beyond the pass.

The Eiger (shown along with the Mönch and the Jungfrau) has the tallest north face in the Alps.

The geologic folding seen at the Arpanaz waterfall, shown here in a mid-18th-century drawing, was noted by 18th-century geologists.

The dolomitic peaks of the Triglav National Park in the Julian Alps

Compressed metamorphosed Tethyan sediments and their oceanic basement are sandwiched between the tip of the Matterhorn (Italian-Swiss border), which consists of gneisses originally part of the African plate, and the base of the peak, which is part of the Eurasian plate.

Haute Maurienne (Ambin and Vanoise massifs) and its exposed crystalline basement made of high-pressure subduction rocks such as blueschist and metaquartzite (picture taken at 2400 m)

This illustration of the glacier systems of the Mont Blanc massif by Alexander Keith Johnston was first published 1848 in The Physical Atlas.

Louis Agassiz's studies of the Unteraar Glacier in the 1840s showed that it moved at 100 m per year.

Inside a glacier at the top of the train station at the Jungfraujoch

The St. Bartholomew's chapel on the Königssee in Bavaria is a popular tourist destination.

Southern prealpine lakes like Lake Garda are characterised by warmer microclimates than the surrounding areas

The Aletsch Glacier with pine trees growing on the hillside (2007; the surface is 180 m lower than 150 years ago)

Preserved internal alpine forest and meadow, Vanoise National Park

Young alpine ibex. When fully grown the horns of this male will be about one metre wide.

The alpine Apollo butterfly has adapted to alpine conditions.

Pre-historic petroglyphs from Valcamonica, Italy

Château de Chillon, an early medieval castle on the north shore of Lake Geneva, is shown here against the backdrop of the Dents du Midi.

Russian troops under Suvorov crossing the Alps in 1799

Built from 1300 to 1500 metres high on a rock of quartzite and surrounded by deep cliffs, the Forts de l'Esseillon prevented any invasion.

The first ascent of the Matterhorn (1865), lithograph by Gustave Doré

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, Caspar David Friedrich (1818)

The Nazis hid looted art in salt mines at Altaussee, such as the Early Netherlandish Ghent Altarpiece which sustained significant damage.

Hallstatt is known for its production of salt, dating back to prehistoric times.

In the summers the cows are brought up to the high mountain meadows for grazing. Small summer villages such as this one shown in this photograph taken in Savoy are used.

Alpine chalet being built in Haute-Maurienne (Savoy), the use of thick pieces of orthogneiss (4–7 cm) is in accordance with the strict architectural regulations in the region bordering the national parks of Vanoise-Grand Paradis.

The ski resort in Speikboden, South Tyrol, Italy

Karl Schranz running the Lauberhorn in 1966

Zentralbahn Interregio train following the Lake Brienz shoreline, near Niederried in Switzerland

The highest portion of the range is divided by the glacial trough of the Rhône valley, from Mont Blanc to the Matterhorn and Monte Rosa on the southern side, and the Bernese Alps on the northern.

Mattertal

Located in southwestern Switzerland, south of the Rhone valley in the canton of Valais.

A large debris fan, deposited by a rockslide in the 1990s, can be seen above the village of Randa in the Matter valley.

The Weisshorn above the Matter valley (background).

The Glacier Express along the Matter Vispa

The valley starts between the high summits south of Zermatt (Monte Rosa, Matterhorn) on the border with Italy.

Dufourspitze

Aerial view of the Lysjoch area from the south

The west flank and the Monte Rosa Glacier. The Nordend (left) is separated from the summit by the Silbersattel.

The Monte Rosa Hut in May in front of the Lyskamm

The Dufourspitze is the highest peak of Monte Rosa, an ice-covered mountain massif in the Alps.

Rhône

Major river in France and Switzerland, rising in the Alps and flowing west and south through Lake Geneva and southeastern France before discharging into the Mediterranean Sea.

The source of the Rhône, at the foot of the Rhône Glacier, above Oberwald.

The Rhône flowing through the valleys of the Swiss Alps and arriving into Lake Geneva, in Switzerland.

Pont du Mont-Blanc in Geneva, marking the outflow from Lake Geneva (right)

The Rhône in Lyon under the old Boucle's Bridge

Almost all tributaries more than 36 km long. The portion of the Rhône above Brig-Glis is labelled by its native Walliser German name, Rotten

Between Brig and Martigny, it collects waters mostly from the valleys of the Pennine Alps to the south, whose rivers originate from the large glaciers of the massifs of Monte Rosa, Dom, and Grand Combin, but also from the steeper slopes of the Bernese Alps to the north, and the Mont Blanc massif to the west.