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The Great St Bernard Pass is located near the western end of the Valais Alps, the next pass to the west, Col Ferret, marking the transition with the Mont Blanc massif.In that area, between Mont Dolent and Mont Vélan, the main crest of the Alps barely reaches 3,000 metres, unlike in the much higher section of the Valais Alps east of Mont Vélan and Grand Combin.
The Great St Bernard Tunnel (French: Tunnel du Grand Saint-Bernard, Italian: Traforo del Gran San Bernardo, German: Grosser-Sankt-Bernhard-Tunnel) is a road tunnel complementing the Great St Bernard Pass, linking Martigny (in the Swiss canton of Valais) with Saint-Rhémy-en-Bosses (in the Aosta Valley, in north western Italy).
Santa Maria Val Müstair GR - Stelvio Pass IT: 1901: 2501: 12%: road Unterer Hauenstein: Solothurn/Basel-Landschaft: Olten SO - Sissach BL 691: 6%: road Vue des Alpes: Neuchâtel: Neuchâtel - La Chaux-de-Fonds 1283: 10%: road/motorway tunnel Wasserfluh: St. Gallen: Lichtensteig - St. Peterzell 843: 10%: road Weissenstein: Solothurn: Oberdorf ...
St Bernard Pass may refer to: Great St Bernard Pass crosses the Valais Alps between Martigny, Switzerland and Aosta, Italy Little St Bernard Pass lies between Mont Blanc and the Graian Alps, connecting Bourg St Maurice, France to Courmayeur, Italy
As late as 1905, the highest pass over the main chain that had a carriage road was the Great St Bernard (2,472 m (8,111 ft)), but three still higher passes over side ridges have roads—the col de l'Iseran, the Stelvio Pass (2,760 m (9,040 ft)), the Col du Galibier (2,658 m (8,721 ft)), in the Dauphiné Alps, and the Umbrail Pass (2,512 m ...
View from the lake. The Great St Bernard Hospice (French: Hospice du Grand St-Bernard; Italian: Ospizio del Gran San Bernardo; German: Hospiz auf dem Grossen St. Bernhard), named after its founder Bernard of Menthon, [1] is a hospice and hostel for travelers at the Great St Bernard Pass in Switzerland.
The Grimsel Pass road. This is a list of the highest paved roads in Switzerland.It includes paved roads in the Alps that are over 1 kilometre (0.62 miles) long and whose culminating point is over 1,850 metres (6,070 feet) above sea level.
Day 3: Up the Val Ferret and over to Grand St. Bernard Hospice. Day 4: Down to Great St Bernard Pass and over the shoulder of Mont Vélan to the Vélan Hut. Day 5: Up the Grand Combin and over the Plateau du Couloir, down the Glacier du Mont Durand to the Chanrion Hut.