Piz Buin

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Piz Buin is the highest mountain peak in Vorarlberg and one of the highest in the Silvretta mountain range, the highest being the giant pyramid of Piz Linard (3,410 m, 11,188 ft).

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Its original name in the Romansh language of the Swiss canton Graub?nden is Piz Buin Grand. A very similar summit nearby is called Piz Buin Pitschen; it has the same shape but is slightly lower (3,255 m or 10,680 ft).

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Piz Buin can be reached from the Wiesbadener hut in Austria, crossing the Vermunt glacier, climbing up the Wiesbadener ridge and hiking over the Ochsentaler Glacier to the Buin gap. From the gap there is a zigzag walk to the top, with only a 20 m (65 ft) steep step to surmount before reaching the relatively flat summit space, which has an old wooden cross on the very top. The border between Switzerland and Austria crosses the summit from East to West.

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The name Piz Buin has also been taken, as its trade mark, by a sun cream firm, which has its headquarters in Vorarlberg and is well known all over the world.

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Silvretta: The Silvretta is a mountain range of the Central Eastern Alps shared by Tirol, Vorarlberg (both in Austria) and Graub?nden (Switzerland). The Austrian states of Tirol and Vorarlberg are connected by a pass road (Silvretta Hochalpenstra?e at 2032 m). The majority of the peaks are elevated above three...

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Piz Buin related Images and Photos (experimental)

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