The Cornettes de Bise is a
mountain
A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually higher t ...
in the
Chablais Alps, overlooking
Lake Geneva
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. At 2,432 metres above sea level, it is the highest summit of the subrange running from
Pas de Morgins to Lake Geneva. The mountain is located on the border between
France
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(west) and
Switzerland (east).
Nearest localities are
Miex (
Valais
Valais ( , , ; frp, ValĂȘs; german: Wallis ), more formally the Canton of Valais,; german: Kanton Wallis; in other official Swiss languages outside Valais: it, (Canton) Vallese ; rm, (Chantun) Vallais. is one of the 26 cantons forming the S ...
) and
La Chapelle-d'Abondance (
Haute Savoie). Various trails lead to the summit from both sides.
Panorama
See also
*
List of mountains of Valais
*
List of most isolated mountains of Switzerland
References
External links
Cornettes de Bise on Summitpost
Mountains of the Alps
Mountains of Switzerland
Mountains of Valais
Two-thousanders of Switzerland
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