Gornergrat
The Gornergrat is a rocky ridge of the Pennine Alps, overlooking the Gorner Glacier south-east of Zermatt in Switzerland. It can be reached from Zermatt by the Gornergrat rack railway, the highest open-air railway in Europe.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Herzi Pinki, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hohtälli and Riffelsee.
Hohtälli
Peak
The Hohtälli is a mountain of the Swiss Pennine Alps, located southeast of Zermatt in the canton of Valais. It lies on the range that separates the Findel Glacier from the Gorner Glacier, between the Gornergrat and the Stockhorn.
Riffelsee
Riffelsee is an alpine lake above the town of Zermatt in the canton of Valais, Switzerland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Riffelalp and Findeln.
Riffelalp
Hamlet
Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Riffelalp is a hamlet in the municipality of Zermatt in the canton of Valais. It is located at a height of 2,222 metres above sea level, just above the tree line, approximately halfway between the town of Zermatt and the Gornergrat mountain.
Findeln
Locality
Photo: Zermatt photos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Findeln is a group of hamlets above Zermatt in the canton of Valais. They are located on the south facing slopes of the Sunnegga–Unterrothorn–Oberrothorn mountains.
Gornergrat
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 3,135 metres
- Description: mountain
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Zermatt, Visp District, Valais, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
45.98361° or 45° 59′ 1″ northLongitude
7.78434° or 7° 47′ 4″ eastElevation
3,135 metres (10,285 feet)Open location code
8FQ9XQMM+CPOpenStreetMap ID
node 8925949718OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Gornergrat” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غورنيرغات”
- Bulgarian: “Горнерграт”
- Cebuano: “Gornergrat”
- Chinese: “戈爾內格拉特”
- Czech: “Gornergrat”
- Danish: “Gornergrat”
- Dutch: “Gornergrat”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل جورنيرجات”
- Esperanto: “Gornergrato”
- Finnish: “Gornergrat”
- French: “Gornergrat”
- German: “Gornergrat”
- Hungarian: “Gornergrat”
- Italian: “Gornergrat”
- Japanese: “ゴルナーグラート”
- Korean: “고르너그라트”
- Ladin: “Gornergrat”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gornergrat”
- Persian: “گورنگرات”
- Polish: “Gornergrat”
- Slovenian: “Gornergrat”
- Swahili: “Gornergrat”
- Swedish: “Gornergrat”
- Thai: “กอร์เนอร์กราท”
- Venetian: “Gornergrat”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Gornergrat”. Photo: Herzi Pinki, CC BY-SA 2.5.