Dufourspitze

	The Monte Rosa massif with the Dufourspitze.
Elevation	4,634 m (15,203 ft)
Prominence	2,165 m (7,103 ft) ↓ Great St Bernard Pass; Ranked 7th in the Alps
Listing	Country high point; Canton high point; Ultra; Seven Second Summits
Translation	Peak Dufour, Highest Peak, Large Horn
Location
Range	Pennine Alps
Climbing
First ascent	1 August 1855 by Matthäus and Johannes Zumtaugwald, Ulrich Lauener, Christopher and James Smyth, Charles Hudson, John Birkbeck and Edward Stephenson.
Easiest route	rock/snow/ice climb

The Dufourspitze is a mountain in the Alps.

With a height of 4634 metres, it is the highest mountain peak in Switzerland and also the second-highest peak in the Alps in and Western Europe after Mont Blanc. The mountain is on the border between Switzerland and Italy.

The mountain is named after the famous swiss engineer and topographer Guillaume Henri Dufour.

Gallery

Dufourspitze from Nordend
The Monte-Rosa Hut, from which the routes to the peak start.
Monte-Rosa massif, the Dufourspitze is the peak in the center.

Dufourspitze Media

General Guillaume Henri Dufour
Nordend and Dufourspitze
View from Dufourspitze towards the Grenzgletscher
Monte Rosa from Liskamm: Dufourspitze (left), Zumsteinspitze, Signalkuppe and Parrotspitze (right)
Aerial view of the Lysjoch area from the south
The west flank and the Monte Rosa Glacier. The Nordend (left) is separated from the summit by the Silbersattel.
View from the base of the east face

Notes

↑ Retrieved from the Swisstopo topographic maps. The key col is the Great St Bernard Pass (2,469 m)

[1] Retrieved from the Swisstopo topographic maps. The key col is the Great St Bernard Pass (2,469 m)

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