The Cima di Jazzi (English: Jazzi Peak) is a

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of the

Pennine Alps The Pennine Alps (german: Walliser Alpen, french: Alpes valaisannes, it, Alpi Pennine, la, Alpes Poeninae), also known as the Valais Alps, are a mountain range in the western part of the Alps. They are located in Switzerland (Valais) and Italy ( ...

, located on the

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border, just north of

Monte Rosa : , other_name = Monte Rosa massif , translation = Mount Rose , photo = Dufourspitze (Monte Rosa) and Monte Rosa Glacier as seen from Gornergrat, Wallis, Switzerland, 2012 August.jpg , photo_caption = Central Mon ...

. It overlooks

Macugnaga Macugnaga ( Walser German: ''Z'Makana'') is a mountain village and a comune at elevation, in the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, in the north of the Piedmont region of Italy. It is located at the base of Monte Rosa (), the second-tallest moun ...

on its east (Italian) side. The west (Swiss) side is entirely covered by glaciers.

Geography

The

SOIUSA Alps by SOIUSA. SOIUSA (an acronym for - English: ''International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps-ISMSA'') is a proposal for a new classification system of the Alps from the geographic and toponomastic point of view. It was designe ...

partition of the Alps places the mountain in the ''Monte Rosa group'' of the alpine subsection ''Eastern Aosta and Northern Valsesia Alps'' (

); its

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is: I/B-9.III-A.3.a.

Mountain huts

* Rifugio Eugenio Sella, * Bivacco Città di Luino, *

Monte Rosa Hütte The Monte Rosa Hut (german: Monte Rosa Hütte) is a mountain hut located near Zermatt on the Monte Rosa massif (up to ) and above the Grenzgletscher (Border Glacier) sitting on a glacier-free rocky part called ''Untere Plattje'' at an altitude of ...

References

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Cima di Jazzi on Hikr
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