Mount Alpi, with its two twin peaks Pizzo Falcone (1,900 m) and S. Croce (1,893 m), can be counted among the highest elevations of the Lucanian Apennines and constitutes one of the most interesting and intact areas from the environmental and naturalistic point of view.
From each of its peaks it is possible to observe, simultaneously, to the north the upper Val d'Agri, to the east the system of clayey gullies descending towards the Ionian Sea, to the west the Sirino, the Tyrrhenian coast and the highest peaks of Cilento; finally, to the south, the Zaccana and Spina mountains as well as the imposing Pollino high-plateau and the Sila in ideal conditions. Very similar to the mountain complexes of the Abruzzo-Campania Plate, the Alps mountain is comparable to a large lump of cretaceous limestone, with a characteristic cuneiform shape, which emerges abruptly from the soils that surround it, of more recent formation.
Extreme northern spur of the Pollino massif, the Alps guard the upper valley of the Sinni river, south of Mount Raparo (1,761 m), east of the Sirino massif (2,005 m) and north, north-east of to the La Spina-Zaccana mountain group (1,652 m and 1,580 m).
There is no element that proves that its name is linked to the Alpine chain of Northern Italy, but it seems that its name derives from the local word "Arpo", then transformed into the various transcriptions of the official geographical maps in the Alps. The harp is a sickle used by local populations for cutting herbs or wheat when it was still harvested by hand, associated with the mountain for the shape it assumes seen from above, joining the three main peaks that make it up.
Several quarries are still operating in the area for the extraction of material intended for construction and for the processing of the original gray Latronico stone, used as ornamental marble.