Platigliole Glacier

The Platigliole Glacier was a glacier in the Northern Italian Alps near to the border with Switzerland. It marked the border between Italian Lombardy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the First World War, when it was the scene of mountain warfare, during the White War.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Stelvio Pass and Piz da las Trais Linguas.

Stelvio Pass

Mountain saddle

Photo: Kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Stelvio Pass is a mountain pass in northern Italy bordering Switzerland at an elevation of 2,757 m above sea level. It is the highest paved mountain pass in the Eastern Alps, and the second highest in the Alps, 7 m below France's Col de l'Iseran.

Piz da las Trais Linguas

Peak

Photo: 2000, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Piz da las Trais Linguas, is a minor summit of the Ortler Alps, located on the border between Switzerland and Italy. The summit is the tripoint between the Italian regions of Lombardy and South Tyrol and the Swiss canton of Graubünden.

Monte Scorluzzo

Peak

Photo: Idéfix, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Monte Scorluzzo is a summit of the Ortler Alps, located in Lombardy, Italy close to the border to Trentino-Alto Adige and Grisons, Switzerland. It lies within Stelvio National Park, and is known as an "easy three-thousander" as its summit can be reached within a 1.5 hour hike from Stelvio Pass.