Dunantspitze
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The Dunantspitze (German for "Peak Dunant", 4,632 m), formerly called Ostspitze ("Eastern Peak"), is a peak of the Monte Rosa Massif in the Pennine Alps in Switzerland. It is the second highest peak of the massif, after the Dufourspitze (4,634 m) and the second highest summit in Switzerland, but its prominence is only about 15 metres. At the time of its first ascent it was unclear which of the summits was the higher.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Dunantspitze
- Mountain.other_name
- Ostspitze
- Mountain.translation
- Peak Dunant
- Mountain.photo
- DufourspitzeFromNordendAndNames.jpg
- Mountain.photo_size
- 285
- Mountain.photo_caption
- The Dunantspitze, lying between the Grenzgipfel and the Dufourspitze (seen from Nordend)
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 4632
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 15
- Mountain.parent_peak
- Monte Rosa
- Mountain.map
- Switzerland
- Mountain.map_caption
- Location in Switzerland
- Mountain.location
- Valais, Switzerland
- Mountain.range
- Pennine Alps
- Mountain.first_ascent
- 12 August 1848 by Johann Madutz and Matthias Zumtaugwaldor1 September 1854 by Ulrich Lauener, Johann and Matthias Zumtaugwald guiding Christopher, Edmund and James G. Smyth
- Mountain.easiest_route
- West ridge from the Sattel or south-east ridge via the Grenzgipfel.
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Wikidata facts
- Elevation
- 4631
- Image
- DufourspitzeFromNordendAndNames.jpg
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- topographic prominence
- 25
- topographic isolation
- 0.08
- Commons category
- Dunantspitze
- name
- Punta Dunant
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The Dunantspitze (German for "Peak Dunant", 4,632 m), formerly called Ostspitze ("Eastern Peak"), is a peak of the Monte Rosa Massif in the Pennine Alps in Switzerland. It is the second highest peak of the massif, after the Dufourspitze (4,634 m) and the second highest summit in Switzerland, but its prominence is only about 15 metres. At the time of its first ascent it was unclear which of the summits was the higher.
==Naming== Dunantspitze and Dufourspitze were originally just the eastern and western summits (Ostspitze and Westspitze) of the Gornerhorn. Westspitze was renamed Dufourspitze in 1863 in honour of Guillaume-Henri Dufour, while Ostspitze retained its name until October 2014. It was then renamed Dunantspitze in honour of Henry Dunant, the Swiss founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in 1863.
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