page_title: List of mountains of Switzerland
section_title: Criteria
hierarchical_section_title: List of mountains of Switzerland / Criteria
caption_attribution_description: English: Panorama del Monte Rosa visto dai pressi del Lago Maggiore in autunno.
context_page_description: This page contains a sortable table listing all major mountains and hills of Switzerland. The table includes all summits that have a topographic prominence of at least 300 metres, regardless of absolute height or other merit, ranking them by height and prominence.
  Along with the lakes, mountains constitute a major natural feature of Switzerland with most of the cantons having summits exceeding 2,000 metres and three of them having summits exceeding 4,000 metres. The two main mountain ranges are the Alps and the Jura, separated by the Swiss Plateau which also includes a large number of hills. Topographically, the three most important summits of Switzerland are those of Monte Rosa, the Finsteraarhorn and Piz Bernina.
context_section_description: The Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme defines a summit in the Alps as independent, if the connecting ridge between it and a higher summit drops at least 30 m (a prominence/drop of 30 m, with the lowest point referred to as the "key col"). There are over 4400 such summits exceeding 2000 m in Switzerland. In order for a peak to qualify as an independent mountain, traditionally a prominence of at least 300 m, or 10 times the aforementioned criterion value, has been used. Inclusion based on prominence is expedient for its objectivity and verifiability, but has its drawbacks. For example, an impressive mountain peak dominating a valley may be connected via long high ridges to a barely higher hidden summit. Among the better-known peaks absent from this list are Fletschhorn (Lagginhorn), Mont Blanc de Cheilon (Ruinette), Nadelhorn and Täschhorn (Dom), Piz d'Err (Piz Calderas), Piz Badile (Piz Cengalo) and Piz Palü (Piz Zupò).
caption: Monte Rosa, the highest mountain of Switzerland, has several subsidiary summits. Only the Dufourspitze, its main peak, is included in the list.
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