tagged w/ Monte Rosa
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The highest peak on the Monte Rosa is Dufourspitze which is the highest mountain in Switzerland, and the second highest in the Alps. Only Mont Blanc is higher, but Dufourspitze is more demanding and more exposed. Monte Rosa includes 22 peaks higher than 4.000 meter. The Eastern Wall seen from Macugnaga is 2470 meter high and stunning: a Himalayan wall in the Alps. On the 4th mountains for high of the group, Signalkuppe (Punta Gnifetti) is situated the highest refuge in Europe, refuge "Capanna Margherita", 4654 high.
The Group can be divided in three parts:
The first part is constituted by the Four Primary Peaks of the region (from south to north): Signalkuppe, Zumsteinspitze, Dufourspitze and Nordend.
The second part, known as Grande Monte Rosa (Great Monte Rosa) is constituted by the Great Ridge of Peaks, from the Theodulpass to the Monte Moro pass, and it includes some other important peaks, Lyskamm East 4527 and West 4481, Parrotspitze 4436, Parrotspitze, Breithorn with several peaks, Castor and Pollux.
The third part is constituted by those Minor Ridges, perpendicular to the main one and elongated in the Swiss territory to North and in Italian territory to South. Important is the Cresta Indren to Italy (Indrengrat) with the Balmenhorn (m. 4167, Italy), the Ludwigshohe (m. 4342, Italy) the Piramide Vincent (m. 4215, Italy) and many other “3000” like Punta Indren (m. 3260, Italy). Also important is the Grosser Findelngrat, in Switzerland, with its Stockhorn (m. 3532, Switzerland)
These three parts constitute the Group of Monte Rosa (or Gruppo del Monte Rosa, or as Gruppo di Monterosa).
Monte Rosa group is situated in Pennine Alps range, between Italy and Switzerland; regions of Piedmont (provinces of Verbania and of Vercelli), Valle d’Aosta (province of Aosta) and Valais (Wallis).
The boundaries of the Monte Rosa Group are Theodulpass (West), Monte Moro pass (East), Schwarzberg-Weisstor (north) and Olen pass (South).
The Group of Monte Rosa is made of crystalline and metamorphic rocks, like the marbles and quartzes, and its great ridge, of the main peaks, runs for about 30 kms, between Italy and Switzerland and it also indicates, with good approximations, the Swiss-Italian border. The range culminates in the Dufourspitze (Punta Dufour), 4634 m.The highest peak on the Monte Rosa is Dufourspitze which is the highest mountain in... more
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