Monte Rosa
Monte Rosa is a mountain in the Alps on the Italy/Switzerland border and on the drainage divide between northern Europe and southern Europe.
Its main summit, the Dufourspitze, is 4634 metres tall and the highest point in Switzerland.
The Monte Rosa is popular for alpinism.
Monte Rosa Media
The eastern wall of the Monte Rosa is on Italian territory. The Macugnaga wall has a height of ca. 2400 m above the Valley of Anzasca below and is the highest mountain wall of the Alps.
The Monte Rosa with Po Valley behind it, under a layer of clouds
View from the valley of Gressoney
Regina Margherita Hut on Signalkuppe in August 2002.
The east and north side with the 600 metres-high (2,000 ft) north face of the Nordend (as seen from the Strahlhorn)
Monte Rosa's 2,400 metres-high (7,900 ft) east face, as seen from upper end of Valle Anzasca (Piedmont, Italy)
The west side as seen at a distance of 15 km (9.3 mi) from Hörnlihütte, at the foot of the Matterhorn, 3,260 m (10,700 ft) (in the back from left to right): Rimpfischhorn, Strahlhorn, Findelgletscher, Stockhorn (and Gornergrat below it), upper (on the north side) and lower (on the west side) Gornergletscher – the central Monte Rosa massif – Grenzgletscher, Liskamm and several Breithorn peaks on the south side (2008)
Aerial photo of Monte Rosa massif with Gornergletscher on the left and Grenzgletscher on the right. The green spot in the middle is the glacier lake Gornersee (2.599 m)
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