The Parrotspitze (in Italian, the Punta Parrot) (4,432 m) is a

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in the

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. It is located south of

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in the

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. The mountain is named after Johann Jakob Friedrich Wilhelm Parrot, a German doctor, who made an attempt on the Piramide Vincent with Joseph Zumstein in 1816. The first ascent was made by Reginald S. Macdonald,

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, Montagu Woodmass and William Edward Hall with guides

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and Peter Perren on 16 August 1863, four days after the same party's (with an extra guide) first ascent of the nearby

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. The previous year, on 8 July 1862, a party comprising A. W. Moore and Hereford Brooke George (the first editor of the ''

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'') with guides

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and Matthias Zumtaugwald climbed the east spur of the Parrotspitze (the ''British Route'') but made straight over the frontier to Switzerland, not bothering to climb the final 60 metres to the summit.

References

* Dumler, Helmut and Willi P. Burkhardt, ''The High Mountains of the Alps'', London: Diadem, 1994 * Collomb, Robin G., (ed.), ''Pennine Alps Central'', London: Alpine Club, 1975

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