Cima d'Asta explained

Cima d’Asta
Elevation M:2847
Prominence M:939
Parent Peak:Vezzana
Listing:Alpine mountains 2500-2999 m
Location:Pieve Tesino,Trentino, Italy
Range:Fiemme Alps
Map:Alps
Label Position:right
Coordinates:46.1769°N 11.6047°W
First Ascent:1816 by surveyors or earlier. First reported ascent by Gustav Euringer in 1882.

Cima d’Asta at 2847m (9,341feet) is the highest mountain of the Fiemme Mountains in the eastern part of the Italian province of Trentino.

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 Borgo Valsugana. 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.[1]

Notes and References

  1. 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