The Dufourspitze is the highest peak of Monte Rosa, an ice-covered mountain massif in the Alps. Dufourspitze is the highest mountain of both Switzerland and the Pennine Alps and is also the second-highest mountain of the Alps and Western Europe, after Mont Blanc. It is located between Switzerland (Canton of Valais) and Italy (Piedmont and Aosta Valley). The peak itself is located wholly in Switzerland.
Following a long series of attempts beginning in the early nineteenth century, Monte Rosa's summit, then still called Höchste Spitze (English: Highest Peak), was first reached on 1 August, the Swiss National celebration day, in 1855 from Zermatt by a party of eight climbers led by three guides: Matthäus and Johannes Zumtaugwald, Ulrich Lauener, Christopher and James Smyth, Charles Hudson, John Birkbeck and Edward Stephenson.
There's a difficult alpine trail (T6) leading to the summit.
The nearest mountain hut is Rifugio Capanna Regina Margherita located 1 354m/4 442ft SE of the summit.
By elevation Monte Rosa - Dufourspitze is
# 5 out of 60693 in the Alps # 1 out of 1787 in Valais/Wallis # 1 out of 345 in Visp # 5 out of 42694 in Italy # 1 out of 4320 in Piemont # 1 out of 614 in Verbano-Cusio-Ossola # 1 out of 10817 in Switzerland # 1 out of 2009 in the Pennine Alps
By prominence Monte Rosa - Dufourspitze is
# 7 out of 60693 in the Alps # 2 out of 1787 in Valais/Wallis # 1 out of 345 in Visp # 5 out of 42694 in Italy # 1 out of 4320 in Piemont # 1 out of 614 in Verbano-Cusio-Ossola # 3 out of 10817 in Switzerland # 1 out of 2009 in the Pennine Alps
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