Milan and the white alps from the airplane at sunrise

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Milan and the white alps from the airplane at sunrise

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it was taken in march 2011...now there're 4 skyscrapers more in the cluster

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Re: Milan and the white alps from the airplane at sunrise

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Well-worth looking at the larger image: what is the name of the massive mountain at the extreme right-hand side?
Thanks for sharing! _b
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Orion wrote:Well-worth looking at the larger image: what is the name of the massive mountain at the extreme right-hand side?
Thanks for sharing! _b
it's Monte Rosa. 4634 m asl. the second highest mountain in europe after Monte Bianco 4810 m asl.
it's located between Italy and Switzerland (the northern part is in S. - the eastern, southern and western parts are in I.)
it's covered by large perennial ice sheets. on the top the temperature is always below zero. only during the most intense heat waves it can reach +1/+2 degrees for short time.
last monday when here in Milan there were +30 degrees, on the top there were -8 and it was snowing with strong winds. at 4550 m asl there's the Regina Margherita Refuge. the highest of europe. and there's a weather station set by the university of Torino (Turin) that is the highest of europe and there's also the highest webcam HD of europe :mrgreen:

here some images:

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monte rosa massif di H o g n e, su Flickr

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Regina Margherita Refuge:

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webcam live HD: http://www.umbriameteo.com/web_monteros ... s/1200.jpg
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Re: Milan and the white alps from the airplane at sunrise

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Ah! I had heard of Monte Rosa but didn't know what it looked like - thanks for identifying it for me, and for the extra photos. :-)
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