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Piz Buin Pitschen

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Piz Buin Pitschen
View from the north with the Ochsentaler Glacier
Highest point
Elevation3,256 m (10,682 ft)
Prominence205 m (673 ft)[1]
Parent peakPiz Buin (Grond)
Geography
Piz Buin Pitschen is located in Alps
Piz Buin Pitschen
Piz Buin Pitschen
Location in the Alps
LocationGraubünden, Switzerland
Vorarlberg, Austria
Parent rangeSilvretta Alps
Climbing
First ascent24 August 1868 by C.W. Stein and his guide Christian Jann.
Easiest routeglacier/snow climb

Piz Buin Pitschen is a mountain of the Silvretta Alps, located on the border between Switzerland and Austria. It lies just west of the higher Piz Buin and is the second highest mountain of Vorarlberg.

References

  1. ^ Retrieved from the Swisstopo topographic maps. The key col is the Fuorcla Buin (3,051 m)