Piz Buin () is a

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in the

Silvretta The Silvretta Alps are a mountain range of the Central Eastern Alps shared by Tirol, Vorarlberg (both in Austria) and Graubünden ( Switzerland). The Austrian states of Tirol and Vorarlberg are connected by a pass road ( Silvretta Hochalpenst ...

range of the

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on the border between

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and

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. It forms the border between the Swiss canton of Graubünden and the Austrian state of

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and is the highest peak in Vorarlberg. Its original name in the

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is ''Piz Buin Grond''. A similar but smaller summit nearby is called ''

Piz Buin Pitschen Piz Buin Pitschen ( Rumantsch) or Kleiner Piz Buin (German) is a peak in the Silvretta Alps. The Piz Buin Pitschen lies western of his higher neighbor the Piz Buin Grond or Großer Piz Buin. The summit forms the border between Switzerland and ...

'' at 3,255 m (10,680 ft). Piz Buin was first climbed on 14 July 1865 by

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and Johann Jakob Weilenmann, guided by Jakob Pfitscher and Franz Pöll. Piz Buin Pitschen was climbed three years later. Piz Buin can be reached from the Wiesbadener hut, 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

and

crosses the summit from East to West.

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