Mount Hermon

This article is about the mountain in the Middle East. For other uses, see Mount Hermon (disambiguation).
"Hermon" redirects here. For other uses, see Hermon (disambiguation).

Mount Hermon
Jabal ash-Shaykh جبل الشيخ (Arabic)
Har Ḥermon הר חרמון (Hebrew)
Mount Hermon, viewed from Mount Bental in the Golan Heights
Highest point
Elevation2,814 m (9,232 ft)[1]
Prominence1,804 m (5,919 ft)
Listing
Coordinates33°24′58″N 35°51′27″E / 33.41611°N 35.85750°E / 33.41611; 35.85750
Geography
Mount Hermon is located in Syria and Lebanon
Mount Hermon
Mount Hermon
Mount Hermon's summit straddles the border between Lebanon and Syria.
LocationSyria (southern slopes are located in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights)
Lebanon
Parent rangeAnti-Lebanon mountain range

Mount Hermon (Arabic: جبل الشيخ or جبل حرمون / ALA-LC: Jabal al-Shaykh ('Mountain of the Sheikh') or Jabal Haramun; Hebrew: הַר חֶרְמוֹן, Har Ḥermōn) is a mountain cluster constituting the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon mountain range. Its summit straddles the border between Syria and Lebanon[2] and, at 2,814 m (9,232 ft) above sea level, is the highest point in Syria.[3] On the top, in the United Nations buffer zone between Syrian and Israeli-occupied territories, is the highest permanently manned UN position in the world, known as "Hermon Hotel",[4] located at 2814 metres altitude (9,232 ft).[5] The southern slopes of Mount Hermon extend to the Israeli-occupied portion of the Golan Heights, where the Mount Hermon ski resort is located[6] with a top elevation of 2,040 m (6,690 ft).[7] A peak located about 11 kilometres (7 miles) south-southwest of Mount Hermon, known as Mitzpe Hashlagim, is the highest point in the entirety of Israel when including Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, at 2,236 m (7,336 ft).[8]

  1. ^ "Topographic map of Mount Hermon". opentopomap.org. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
  2. ^ "ACME Mapper terrain display". mapper.acme.com. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  3. ^ "CIA World Fact Book: Syria". 14 November 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2011. highest point: Mount Hermon 2,814 m
  4. ^ Gröppel, Ekkehard (April–June 2013). "It is time to say Goodbye!" (PDF). Golan: The UNDOF Journal (135). United Nations Disengagement Observer Force: 10–15. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  5. ^ "Mt Hermon – UNDOF's Vital Ground" (PDF). Golan: The UNDOF Journal (144). United Nations Disengagement Observer Force. July–September 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  6. ^ The World's 18 Strangest Ski Resorts: The Mount Hermon Ski Resort Archived 2014-10-06 at the Wayback Machine, Shannon Hassett, Popular Mechanics
  7. ^ The Hermon Ski Resort: About, homepage of the resort, accessed 9 August 2019
  8. ^ "Mitze Hashlagim - Peakbagger.com". www.peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2024-09-10.