Strahlhorn

LocationValaisCountrySwitzerlandParent rangePennine AlpsTopo mapSwiss Federal Office of Topography swisstopoClimbingFirst ascent15 August 1854 by Christopher Smyth, Ulrich Lauener, Edmund J. Grenville and Franz-Josef AndenmattenEasiest routeBasic snow climb

The Strahlhorn (4,190 m) is a mountain of the Swiss Pennine Alps, located south of Saas-Fee and east of Zermatt in the canton of Valais. It lies on the range that separates the Mattertal from the Saastal and is located approximately halfway between the Rimpfischhorn and the Schwarzberghorn.

There are three less known peaks of the same name in Switzerland (3027m, 3194m, 3200m).^[2]

See also

• List of 4000 metre peaks of the Alps

References

Sources

• Dumler, Helmut and Willi P. Burkhardt, The High Mountains of the Alps, London: Diadem, 1994

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