Torre del Gran San Pietro explained

Torre del Gran San Pietro
Tour du Grand-Saint-Pierre
Elevation M:3692
Map:Alps
Label Position:left
Coordinates:45.5267°N 7.3581°W
Location:Aosta Valley, Italy
Range:Graian Alps
Listing:Alpine mountains above 3000 m
First Ascent:14 July 1867

Torre del Gran San Pietro (French: Tour du Grand-Saint-Pierre) is a mountain in the Gran Paradiso massif, a sub-group of the Graian Alps, with an elevation of 3,692 m. It is located between Piedmont and Aosta Valley, in northern Italy, near the Cogne Valley.

First ascent

In 1865 Amé Gorret, Martino Baretti, and Jean-Pierre Carrel reached a subsidiary summit on the crest of the mountain, which they subsequently dubbed Pic du Retour.[1] Two years later, Daniel Ballay and Michel Payot guided Douglas Freshfield, C. C. Tucker, T. H. Carson, and J. H. Backhouse to the main summit.[2]

See also

Notes and References

  1. George Yel, Scrambles in the Eastern Graians, London, 1900
  2. http://www.summitpost.org/torre-del-gran-san-pietro/153239 Torre del Gran San Pietro at SummitPost