Piz Bianco (also known as Piz Alv) is a minor summit north of Piz Bernina, in the Bernina Range of the Alps. It is located south of Pontresina in the canton of Graubünden.
Culminating at 3,995 metres, Piz Bianco is the highest point of the snowy ridge named Biancograt (or Crast'Alva). The summit is often traversed by climbers on the way to Piz Bernina.
^Approximation. Retrieved from the Swisstopo topographic maps and Google Earth. The key col is located south of the summit at 3,980 metres.
PizBianco (also known as Piz Alv) is a minor summit north of Piz Bernina, in the Bernina Range of the Alps. It is located south of Pontresina in the...
itself starts at the Fuorcla Prievlusa (3,430 m (11,250 ft)) and leads to PizBianco (3,995 m (13,107 ft)). To reach the summit, the Bernina gap – which repulsed...
Piz Alv (Romansh: "white peak") is the name of several mountains in Switzerland: PizBianco, a prominence north of Piz Bernina Piz Alv (Lepontine Alps)...
It is one of the highest ranges of the Alps, covered with many glaciers. Piz Bernina (4,049 m (13,284 ft)), its highest peak, is the most easterly four-thousand-metre...
Piz Cambrena is a mountain in the Bernina Range of the Alps, overlooking the Lago Bianco in the canton of Graubünden. It is situated between Piz Palü and...
Italian town of Tirano in Valtellina. The pass lies a few kilometres east of Piz Bernina, and south of Val Minor. The Bernina Pass is crossed by both the...
Livigno Alps include the Piz Palü, 3,901 m (12,799 ft), Piz Cambrena, 3,606 m (11,831 ft), Piz Varuna, 3,453 m (11,329 ft), and Piz Lagalb, 2,959 m (9,708 ft)...
392 ft) above Lago Bianco. Alp Grüm (2,091 m [6,860 ft]) is the first station south of the Alps, situated above Lago Palü and right below Piz Palü (3,900 m [12...
The highest is Piz Bernina, closely followed by numerous peaks in the homonymous range. Other prominent mountains are Piz Russein, Piz Kesch, Calanda...
with the transverse range lying between the Dent d'Herens and the Pizzo Bianco near Macugnaga. The minor ridges on the north side of the border are parallel...
Mason is a mountain in the Bernina Range of the Alps, overlooking the Lago Bianco and the Bernina Pass in the canton of Graubünden. It is situated at the...
over the Morteratsch station (1,896 m) (with the Morteratsch Glacier and Piz Bernina, the highest summit of the Eastern Alps, in sight). After Morteratsch...
d'Arbéron [fr] is higher. The lowest col between equally high Gletscherhorn and Piz Gallagiun is the 383 m deep Passo de la Prasgnola. They share the 2694 m...
back to the eastern side of the valley. Southwest of here, the Piz Bernina and the Piz Palü rise majestically. Next follows the 175 m (574 ft) long Arlas...
September 2015. "Italia-Francia, il duello dei confini sulla cima del Monte Bianco". 8 September 2015. Brown, T. G. and de Beer, G. The First Ascent of Mont...
the Finsteraarhorn, nor the most isolated, that distinction belonging to Piz Bernina. The Swiss national map gives an elevation of 4,634.0 metres (15...
Grand Cornier 3845 Rhone Lago Bianco Graubünden 2234 143.19 Piz Cambrena 3606 Po Lej Nair Graubünden 2223 8.72 West of Piz Lagalb 2840 Danube Lac de Louvie...
three days, 14–16 July, he made the first ascent of the north-east face of Piz Badile in the Val Bregaglia (Bergell), Switzerland, accompanied by Ratti...
in Castro Daire Winners: Alexandre Ricard (m) / Scout Adkin (w) July 15: Piz Tri Vertical in Malonno Winners: Patrick Kipngeno (m) / Andrea Mayr (w) July...
followed the climb of the Bramani-Castiglioni Route on the North-West face of Piz Badile, a second repetition of the Ratti-Vitali route on the West Face of...
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