What mountain chain runs through the majority of Switzerland?
Hinterautal-Vomper Chain chain is divided into the Hinterautal ("Hinterau Valley") chain ("Hinterautalkette") in the west and the Vomper Chain ("Vomperkette") in the east and runs through the Karwendel Alps from Scharnitz in the west to the village of Vomp in the east. North of the Hinterautal-Vomper Chain is the Northern Karwendel Chain ("Nördliche Karwendelkette"), to the south follows the Gleirsch-Halltal Chain, large parts of which have steep, northern slopes, often vertical and hundreds of metres high which are typical of the four Karwendel mountain chains. Along the western part of the Hinterautal-Vomper Chain runs a difficult, high alpine mountain path which is
Mountain chain Mountain chain A mountain chain is a row of high mountain summits, a linear sequence of interconnected or related mountains, or a contiguous ridge of mountains within a larger mountain range. The term is also used for elongated fold mountains with several parallel chains ("chain mountains"). While in mountain ranges, the term mountain chain is common, in hill ranges a sequence of hills tends to be referred to a ridge or hill chain. Elongated mountain chains occur most frequently in the orogeny of fold mountains, (that are folded by lateral pressure), and nappe belts (where a sheetlike body of rock