Piz Roseg (pronounced as ''peetse rawzech'') is a
mountain
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of the
Bernina Range
The Bernina Range is a mountain range in the Alps of eastern Switzerland and northern Italy. It is considered to be part of the Rhaetian Alps within the Central Eastern Alps. It is one of the highest ranges of the Alps, covered with many glacie ...
, overlooking the
Val Roseg in the Swiss canton of
Graubünden.
There are two summits on its main ridge:
:*the south-east and higher summit (3,937 m)
:*the north-west summit, known as the ''Schneekuppe'' (3,920 m).
There is also a prominent top on the east-north-east ridge, called the ''Roseg Pitschen'' (3,868 m) (
Italian
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border).
History
The first ascent of the mountain to the ''Schneekuppe'' was by F. T. Bircham with guides Peter Jenny and Alexander Fleury on 31 August 1863. The highest point of the mountain was reached two years later by
A. W. Moore and
Horace Walker
Horace Walker (1838–1908) was an English mountaineer who made many notable first ascents, including Mount Elbrus and the Grandes Jorasses.
Alpinism
Born in 1838, Walker was the son of Liverpool lead merchant and mountaineer Francis Walker ...
with guide
Jakob Anderegg
Jakob Anderegg (11 March 1829, in Oberwil im Simmental – 17 September 1878, in Meiringen) was a Swiss mountain guide and the first ascensionist of many prominent mountains in the western Alps during the golden and silver ages of alp ...
on 28 June 1865.
Piz Roseg is separated from the neighbouring
Piz Scerscen
Piz Scerscen ( Romansh, it, Monte Scerscen, formerly ''Monte Rosso di Scerscen''), culminating at 3,971 m above sea level, is one of the highest peaks in the Bernina Range, straddling the border between Switzerland and Italy
Italy ( it, ...
by the ''Porta da Roseg'' (3,522 m), also called the ''Güssfeldtsattel''. The Swiss side of this col – a steep ice slope of up to 70° – was first climbed by
Paul Güssfeldt, with guides Hans Grass, Peter Jenny and Caspar Capat on 13 September 1872. Grass and Capat had spent the previous day cutting steps up the first two-fifths of the route. The following day they added at least another 450 steps on the first ascent.
The 700-metre north-east face of Piz Roseg was first climbed by
Christian Klucker
Christian Klucker (28 September 1853 – 21 December 1928) was a Swiss mountain guide who made many first ascents in the Alps, particularly in the Bernina Range, the Bregaglia and the Pennine Alps.
Amongst his first ascents were:
:*''Gurgel'' ...
and L. Norman-Neruda on 16 July 1890; the face – with a notable
serac
A serac (from Swiss French ''sérac'') is a block or column of glacial ice, often formed by intersecting crevasses on a glacier. Commonly house-sized or larger, they are dangerous to mountaineers, since they may topple with little warning. Eve ...
band halfway up – sports a number of difficult routes. Klucker, together with M. Barberia, also made the first traverse from the Italian side of the ''Porta da Roseg'' on 21 June 1898.
See also
*
List of mountains of the Alps above 3000 m
This page tabulates only the most prominent mountains of the Alps, selected for having a topographic prominence of ''at least'' , and all of them exceeding in height. Although the list contains 537 summits, some significant alpine mountains a ...
*
List of mountains of Switzerland
This article contains a sortable table of many of the major mountains and hills of Switzerland. The table only includes those summits that have a topographic prominence of at least above other points, and ranks them by height and prominence. T ...
References
* Collomb, Robin, ''Bernina Alps'', Goring: West Col Productions, 1988
External links
Piz Roseg on SummitPostPiz Roseg on Hikr
Photo gallery
File:ValRoseg.jpg, Piz Roseg above the Val Roseg
File:Roseg.jpg, Piz Roseg above the Val Roseg
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Bernina Range
Mountains of Graubünden
Mountains of the Alps
Alpine three-thousanders
Engadin
Samedan
Mountains partially in Italy
Mountains of Switzerland
Three-thousanders of Switzerland