Piz Buin
Piz Buin is the highest mountain peak in
Vorarlberg and one of the highest in the
Silvretta mountain range, the highest being the giant pyramid of
Piz Linard (3,410
m, 11,188 ft).
Its original name in the
Romansh language of the Swiss canton
Graubünden is
Piz Buin Grand. A very similar summit nearby is called
Piz Buin Pitschen; it has the same shape but is slightly lower (3,255 m or 10,680 ft).
Piz Buin can be reached from the Wiesbadener hut in Austria, crossing the Vermunt glacier, climbing up the Wiesbadener ridge and hiking over the
Ochsentaler Glacier to the Buin gap. From the gap there is a zigzag walk to the top, with only a 20 m (65 ft) steep step to surmount before reaching the relatively flat summit space, which has an old wooden cross on the very top. The border between
Switzerland and
Austria crosses the summit from East to West.
The name
Piz Buin has also been taken, as its trade mark, by a sun cream firm, which has its headquarters in
Vorarlberg and is well known all over the world.
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Piz Buin sun cream web site
