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[1] The first climber to ascend all six north faces in a single year was the Austrian Leo Schlömmer, from the summer of 1961 to the summer of 1962. Ivano Ghirardini was the first person to climb the "Trilogy" in winter, solo (1977–78), and Catherine Destivelle was the first woman (1992-93-94) to complete the solo winter trilogy. [2]
Where the prominence parent and the island parent differ, the prominence parent is marked with "1" and the island parent with "2" (with Mont Blanc abbreviated to MB). The column "Col height" denotes the lowest elevation to which one must descend from a peak in order to reach peaks with higher elevations; note that the elevation of any peak is ...
This list tabulates all of the 82 official mountain summits of 4,000 metres (13,123 ft) or more in height in the Alps, as defined by the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (UIAA). [1] All are located within France, Italy or Switzerland, and are often referred to by mountaineers as the Alpine four-thousanders.
The Alps extend in an arc from France in the south and west to Slovenia in the east, and from Monaco in the south to Germany in the north. The Alps are a crescent shaped geographic feature of central Europe that ranges in an 800 km (500 mi) arc (curved line) from east to west and is 200 km (120 mi) in width.
The International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation defines a summit in the Alps as independent, if the connecting ridge between it and a higher summit drops at least 30 m (a prominence/drop of 30 m, with the lowest point referred to as the "key col"). Over 3300 such summits are exceeding 2500 m in Switzerland alone. [1]
Alps: Rudolf von Rosenroll: Jul 1726: Monte Cavallo: 2251: Alps: Giovanni Girolamo Zanichelli and Dimenico Pietro Stefanelli [11] 1730: Schesaplana: 2965: Alps: Nicolin Sererhard and two companions [12] 20 Jul 1738: Corazón: 4790: Andes: Charles Marie de La Condamine, Pierre Bouguer and porters: 25 Jul 1744: Titlis: 3238: Alps: Ignaz Herz ...