Dufourspitze
Sign in to saveThe Dufourspitze is the highest peak of Monte Rosa, an ice-covered mountain massif in the Alps. Dufourspitze is the highest mountain of both Switzerland and the Pennine Alps and is also the second-highest mountain of the Alps and Western Europe, after Mont Blanc. It is located between Switzerland (Canton of Valais) and Italy (Piedmont and Aosta Valley). The peak itself is located wholly in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Dufourspitze
- Mountain.translation
- Peak Dufour, Highest Peak, Large Horn
- Mountain.photo
- Monte Rosa summit.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- From the peak to the southeast towards Italy, the Dunantspitze in the rear hides the 18-metre lower Grenzgipfel ()
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 4634
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 2165
- Mountain.prominence_ref
- ↓ Great St Bernard PassRanked 7th in the Alps
- Mountain.parent_peak
- Mount Blanc (line parent)
- Mountain.isolation_km
- 78.1
- Mountain.isolation_ref
- → M Blanc de Courmayeur
- Mountain.map
- Switzerland#Canton of Valais#Alps
- Mountain.map_caption
- Location in Switzerland
- Mountain.label_position
- top
- Mountain.listing
- Country high pointCanton high pointUltraSeven Second Summits
- Mountain.region_type
- Canton
- Mountain.region
- Valais
- Mountain.country
- Switzerland
- Mountain.range
- Pennine Alps
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Article
15 sectionsContents
- Naming
- Elevation
- History
- Early exploration
- First ascents
- Other ascents
- Huts and climbing routes
- Normal route
- Marinelli couloir
- Timeline
- Panorama
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
The Dufourspitze is the highest peak of Monte Rosa, an ice-covered mountain massif in the Alps. Dufourspitze is the highest mountain of both Switzerland and the Pennine Alps and is also the second-highest mountain of the Alps and Western Europe, after Mont Blanc. It is located between Switzerland (Canton of Valais) and Italy (Piedmont and Aosta Valley). The peak itself is located wholly in Switzerland.
Following a long series of attempts beginning in the early nineteenth century, Monte Rosa's summit, then still called Höchste Spitze (), was first reached on 1 August, the Swiss National celebration day, in 1855 from Zermatt by a party of eight climbers led by three guides: Matthäus and Johannes Zumtaugwald, Ulrich Lauener, Christopher and James Smyth, Charles Hudson, John Birkbeck and Edward Stephenson.