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Spannort Mountain and Glacier.
Stamp issued on 21.09.1972.
Face value: 0,20 Swiss franc.
Design: Edi Hauri (1911-1988).
Engraving: Corvoisier S.A.
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 23,284,000 copies.
Size: 26 x 36 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 976.
- Scott No. 552.
- StampWorld No. 970.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 836.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 906.
- Zumstein No. 516.

Spannort is a very irregularly shaped mountain in the Uri Canton Alps, made up of two peaks: the Gross Spannort, 3198 m (10,492 ft), and the Chli Spannort, 3,140 m (10,300 ft). The Gross Spannort is almost entirely surrounded by glaciers, the largest being Glatt Finn. The Gross Spannort was first climbed in 1867 by a group of British mountaineers. On the night of December 28, 1961, a landslide occurred at Chli Spannort, from which more than a million m³ of rock fell.