Piz Buin Pitschen

View from the north with the Ochsentaler Glacier
Highest point
Elevation3,256 m (10,682 ft)
Prominence199 m (653 ft)[1]
Parent peakPiz Buin (Grond)
Coordinates46°50′32″N 10°06′45″E / 46.84222°N 10.11250°E / 46.84222; 10.11250
Geography
Piz Buin Pitschen is located in Alps
Piz Buin Pitschen
Piz Buin Pitschen
Location in the Alps
Piz Buin Pitschen is located in Austria
Piz Buin Pitschen
Piz Buin Pitschen
Location in Austria
Piz Buin Pitschen is located in Switzerland
Piz Buin Pitschen
Piz Buin Pitschen
Location in Switzerland
LocationGraubünden, Switzerland
Vorarlberg, Austria
Parent rangeSilvretta Alps
Climbing
First ascent24 August 1868 by O.W. Stein and his guide Christian Jann.
Easiest routeglacier/rock climb

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 Austria and is the second highest peak in Vorarlberg, a state of Austria, and the sixth highest peak of the mountain range after the Piz Linard, the Fluchthorn, the Piz Buin Grond, the Verstanclahorn and the Piz Fliana.

The first ascent was made 1868 by O.W. Stein and his guide Christian Jann.

  1. ^ Retrieved from the Swisstopo topographic maps. The key col is the Fuorcla Buin (3,056 m)