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This list tabulates all of the 82 official mountain summits of 4,000 metres (13,123 ft) or more in height in the Alps, as defined by the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (UIAA). [1] All are located within France, Italy or Switzerland, and are often referred to by mountaineers as the Alpine four-thousanders.
For a complete list of mountains over 7200 m high, with at least 500 m of prominence, ... Mountains between 4,000 and 5,000 metres (13,123 ft and 16,404 ft)
Of the 50 most prominent summits of the United States, only Denali exceeds 5000 meters (16,404 feet) of topographic prominence, three peaks exceed 4000 meters (13,123 feet), ten peaks exceed 3000 meters (9843 feet), 45 peaks exceed 2000 meters (6562 feet), and all 50 peaks exceed 1932 meters (6339 feet) of topographic prominence.
World peaks with 4000 meters of prominence from peakbagger.com World top 50 most prominent peaks , originally compiled by David Metzler and Eberhard Jurgalski, and updated with the help of others as new elevation information, especially SRTM , has become available.
The Northeast 111: The White Mountain 48, the Adirondack 46 and 14 Maine peaks, five in Vermont and two Catskill summits over 4,000 feet (1,219.2 m). The Southern Sixers, or South Beyond 6000: all 40 peaks above 6,000 feet (1,828.8 m). in the southern Appalachians, which are in either North Carolina or Tennessee. Technically, there are more ...
In 1994, the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation classified 82 mountain peaks in the Alps whose summits were at least 4,000 m (13,000 ft) above sea level and with at least 30 m (98 ft) of topographic prominence over any adjacent mountain pass or col, as a distinct peak.
Dent Blanche (4,357 m) A four-thousander [1] is a mountain summit that is at least 4,000 metres above sea level. The term is popular among European mountaineers and climbers because the highest peaks in Europe fall into this category, and the summits of four-thousanders are popular in Europe as climbing goals. Although climbing these peaks does ...
The Alpine four-thousanders are the mountains of 4,000 metres (13,123 ft) or more above sea level in the Alps in France, Italy and Switzerland. For a complete list compiled by the UIAA including all of the subsidiary tops, see List of Alpine four-thousanders. For lower summits, see Category:Mountains of the Alps and Category:Alpine three ...