Cima d’Asta at is the highest mountain of the

Fiemme Mountains The Fiemme Mountains, sometimes also the Fleimstal Alps (german: Fleimstaler Alpen) or Fiemme Dolomites ( it, Dolomiti di Fiemme), are a mountain range of the Southern Limestone Alps in the Italian region of Trentino-South Tyrol. The range was n ...

in the eastern part of the Italian province of

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. It is situated in Pieve Tesino, between the Vanoi valley to the north and the Tesino valley to the south and is 18 km north-east of the town of

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. It is over 21 km away from the nearest higher summit, the Cimon della Pala. Just south of the summit is a mountain lake at 2460 m, the ''Lago di Cima d’Asta'', from which the river ''Grigno'' originates. It is unclear when the first ascent was made. On his ascent in 1882, Gustav Euringer did not find evidence of earlier visits, but was aware that the summit had been a triangulation point since 1816 and assumed it had been reached at or before that time.Gustav Euringer
Cima d'Asta gruppe und Vicentinische Alpen
in ''Die Erschliessung der Ostalpen, Volume 3'', by the German and Austrian Alpin Club, Berlin, 1894

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