Zinal is a
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
in
Switzerland, located in the municipality of
Anniviers in the canton of
Valais. It lies at an
elevation
The elevation of a geographic location is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface (see Geodetic datum § ...
of above
sea level
Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured. The global MSL is a type of vertical datuma standardise ...
in the
Swiss Alps in the ''Val de Zinal'', a valley running from the
Zinal Glacier, north of
Dent Blanche
The Dent Blanche is a mountain in the Pennine Alps, lying in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. At -high, it is one of the highest peaks in the Alps.
Naming
The original name was probably ''Dent d'Hérens'', the current name of the nearby De ...
to the village of Ayer, part of the
Val d'Anniviers. With the Dent Blanche, four additional peaks are located around the valley:
Bishorn,
Weisshorn,
Zinalrothorn, and
Ober Gabelhorn
The Ober Gabelhorn (4063 m) is a mountain in the Pennine Alps in Switzerland, located between Zermatt and Zinal.
Geography
The Ober Gabelhorn lies in the Swiss canton of Valais at the southern end of the Zinal valley (part of the Val d'Annivie ...
.
Tourism
The village is a typical Swiss ski resort with (linked with Grimentz since 2013 to form a greater skiing area)
of ski slopes and of cross-country skiing. In summer the area has of marked trails and some
mountain huts such as the
Grand Mountet Hut in the middle of glaciers.
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Ski areas and resorts in Switzerland
Villages in Valais