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Mont Blanc Italian: Monte Bianco (4,808.7 m (15,777 ft)) is the highest mountain in the Alps and the highest in Europe west of the Caucasus peaks of Russia and Georgia. It is ranked 11th in the world in topographic prominence. The mountain stands in a range called the Graian Alps, between the regions of Aosta Valley, Italy, and Savoie and Haute-Savoie, France. more...

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Lower part of the Aletsch glacier with Wannenhorn (3,906 m (12,815 ft)) in the middle and Strahlhorn (3,026 m (9,928 ft)) on the right.

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The following are images from various Alps-related articles on Wikipedia.

Chamonix, The Monument of Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and Jacques Balmat, in honor of their climb of Mont Blanc
This Illustration of the Glacier Systems of the Alps by Alexander Keith Johnston was first published 1848 in The Physical Atlas.
Tectonic map of southern Europe and the Middle East, showing tectonic structures of the western Alpide mountain belt
The Aletsch Glacier with pine trees growing on the hillside (2007; the surface is 180 m (590 ft) lower than 150 years ago)
Built from 1300 to 1500 metres high on a rock of quartzite and surrounded by deep cliffs, the Forts de l'Esseillon prevented any invasion.
Satellite photo showing the Alps in winter, at the top of the Italian peninsula.
Preserved internal alpine forest and meadow, Vanoise National Park
Southern prealpine lakes like Lake Garda are characterised by warmer microclimates than the surrounding areas
The Nazis hid looted art in salt mines at Altaussee, such as the Early Netherlandish Ghent Altarpiece which sustained significant damage.
Haute Maurienne (Ambin and Vanoise massifs) and its exposed crystalline basement made of high-pressure subduction rocks such as blueschist and metaquartzite (picture taken at 2,400 metres or 7,900 feet)
The Eiger (shown along with the Mönch and the Jungfrau) has the tallest north face in the Alps.
Painted view of Theodul Pass (3,295 m) around 1800.
Zentralbahn Interregio train following the Lake Brienz shoreline, near Niederried in Switzerland
Louis Agassiz's studies of the Unteraar Glacier in the 1840s showed that it moved at 100 m (328 ft) per year.
Scenery typical of the glacial regions of the Alps
An "Alp" refers to a high mountain pasture, often with a structure, such as this one on the south side of the Alps, where cows are taken for grazing.
Château de Chillon, an early medieval castle on the north shore of Lake Geneva, is shown here against the backdrop of the Dents du Midi.
Russian troops under Suvorov crossing the Alps in 1799
Young alpine ibex. When fully grown the horns of this male will be about one metre wide.
Alpine chalet being built in Haute-Maurienne (Savoy), the use of thick pieces of orthogneiss (4–7 cm) is in accordance with the strict architural regulations in the region bordering the national parks of Vanoise-Grand Paradis.
Stemless gentian (Gentiana acaulis)
The Alps seen from space
View of the Matterhorn within the Alps
The Tuxertal valley in Tyrol, Austria
The geologic folding seen at the Arpanaz waterfall, shown here in a mid-18th-century drawing, was noted by 18th-century geologists.
The Alps extend in an arc from France in the south and west to Slovenia in the east, and from Monaco in the south to Germany in the north.
The Dolomites (Italy) are a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The col du Mont-Cenis (2,081 m (6,827 ft)) at the centre left of the picture gives access to a large alpine lake, and further away to the Italian peninsula 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) beyond the pass.
The first ascent of the Matterhorn (1865), lithograph by Gustave Doré
The St. Bartholomew's chapel on the Königssee in Bavaria is a popular tourist destination.
In the summers the cows are brought up to the high mountain meadows for grazing. Small summer villages such as this one shown in this photograph taken in Savoie are used.
The crystalline basement of the Mont Blanc Massif
Aerial view of Alps (Vorarlberg)
Herding sheep in Austria
Edelweiss (Leontopodium alpinum)
Flora typical of the Alpine region of the Alps
The ski resort in Speikboden, South Tyrol, Italy
Teufelsbrücke (Devil's Bridge) on the route to the Gotthard Pass; the currently used bridge from 1958 over the first drivable bridge from 1830
Karl Schranz running the Lauberhorn in 1966
The alpine Apollo butterfly has adapted to alpine conditions.
Inside a glacier at the top of the train station at the Jungfraujoch
Pre-historic petroglyphs from Valcamonica, Italy
Compressed metamorphosed Tethyan sediments and their oceanic basement are sandwiched between the tip of the Matterhorn (Italian-Swiss border), which consists of gneisses originally part of the African plate, and the base of the peak, which is part of the Eurasian plate.
Hallstatt is known for its production of salt, dating back to prehistoric times.
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, Caspar David Friedrich (1818)