Les Diablons

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Les Diablons
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View of Les Diablons from above Zinal
Highest point
Elevation 3,609 m (11,841 ft)
Prominence 379 m (1,243 ft) [1]
Listing Alpine mountains above 3000 m
Coordinates 46°8′32.8″N7°40′15.7″E / 46.142444°N 7.671028°E / 46.142444; 7.671028
Geography
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Les Diablons
Location in Switzerland
Location Valais, Switzerland
Parent range Pennine Alps

Les Diablons are a mountain of the Swiss Pennine Alps, overlooking Zinal in the canton of Valais. They lie between the valleys of Anniviers and Turtmann on the subrange of the Pennine Alps that culminates at the Weisshorn.

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South of Les Diablons, on the Tracuit pass, is located the Tracuit Hut.

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References

  1. Retrieved from the Swisstopo topographic maps and Google Earth. The key col is the Col de Tracuit (3,230 m).