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The Alps (French: Alpes; German: Alpen; Italian: Alpi; Romansh: Alps; Slovene: Alpe) is the name for one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria an Slovenia in the east, through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west. The word "Alps" was taken via French from Latin Alpes (meaning "the Alps"), which may be influenced by the Latin words albus (white) or altus (high) or more likely a Latin rendering of a Celtic or Ligurian original.

Trivia about alps

  • The highest railway station in Europe is in the Jungfraujoch, a pass in these mountains
  • During the winter, Eurostar's ski train offers service to these mountains in France
  • If you’re rowin’ the Rhone from start to finish, you begin in this mountain range
  • Used since the 13th century, St. Gotthard pass in Switzerland is in these mountains
  • Some of the highest peaks in these mountains are Mont Blanc, Monte Rosa & the Matterhorn
  • If you're out in this European mountain range you may find the Inn Valley
  • Otzi, a man found frozen in 1991, attempted to cross this European mountain chain 5,000 years ago
  • Monte Leone&the Rheinwaldhorn
  • The Zugspitze, Germany's highest peak, rises over 9,700 feet in the Bavarian chain of these mountains
  • In David's 1801 painting "Napoleon at the Great St. Bernard Pass", the general is crossing this mountain range
  • The Austrian area of these mountains peaks at 12,457-foot Grossglockner
  • Like the highest peak in Western Europe, the highest peak in Australia is in a chain with this name
  • The Po rises on Monte Viso in the Cottian range of these mountains
  • This range was covered with glaciers that formed lakes, like Como and Constance
  • Today on display in an Italian museum, the body of a 5,300-year-old man was found in 1991 thawing out in these mountains
  • William Coolidge, author of these mountains "In Nature and History", made the first winter climb of the Jungfrau
  • Evian water comes from a spring in this mountain range
  • At the Danube River near Vienna, the Carpathians become an eastern continuation of this chain
  • They extend from the Mediterranean near Nice to the plain of the Danube
  • The Agassizhorn in the Bernese section of these mountains is named for a 19th century scientist
  • This mountain system forms a 750-mile arc from the Gulf of Genoa to the Danube River
  • Mont Blanc is the highest peak in these mountains that stretch from France to Austria
  • A 1906 Milan fair celebrated the opening of the Simplon Tunnel under these

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