Capanna Gnifetti
| Capanna Giovanni Gnifetti CAI refuge category D |
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 The Capanna Gnifetti |
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| location | Ridge over the Lys glacier; Aosta Valley , Italy ; Valley location: Gressoney | |
| Mountain range | Valais Alps ( Monte Rosa Massif ) | |
| Geographical location: | 45 ° 53 '59 " N , 7 ° 51' 0" E | |
| Altitude | 3647 m slm | |
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| owner | Club Alpino Italiano Varallo section | |
| Built | 1876, last rebuilt in 1981 | |
| Construction type | Refuge | |
| Usual opening times | Mid-March to May 1st and mid-June to mid-September | |
| accommodation | 143 beds, 0 camps , 31 emergency camps | |
| Winter room | 12 bearings | |
| Web link | Official homepage (ital.) | |
| Hut directory | DAV SAC | |
The Capanna Giovanni Gnifetti , occasionally also Rifugio Gnifetti , is a managed alpine mountain hut on the south side of the Monte Rosa massif of the Valais Alps at an altitude of 3647 m slm and belongs to the Italian region of Aosta Valley .
General
The Gnifetti Hut, located on a rocky ridge between the Garstelet Glacier and the Lys Glacier, is the direct starting point for one-day ascent of the highest peaks of the Monte Rosa massif, such as B. Vincent-Pyramid ( 4215 m ), Zumsteinspitze (4563 m), Parrotspitze ( 4463 m ) or Signalkuppe ( 4554 m ).
The hut was built in 1876 and has been rebuilt and expanded many times up to the present day. The hut is owned by the Varallo section of the Club Alpino Italiano (CAI), is open from mid-March to early May and from mid-June to mid-September, and during this time it can accommodate 176 mountaineers. The winter room with 14 camps is open for the rest of the year .
Accesses
You can reach the hut from the valley town of Alagna Valsesia by cable car to Passo dei Salati. From there the hiking trail leads over the Stolemberg and the Punta Indren in about 2 hours over the Indren glacier to the Rifugio.
Another access runs from Gressoney in the Lystal via Gabiet, past the high lights to the Rifugio Città di Mantova , from where you can already see the Gnifetti hut, which is almost 200 meters higher.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Ernst Höhne: Knaur's Lexicon for Mountain Friends / The Alps between Matterhorn and Lake Constance . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-426-26223-1 , p. 121 .
- ↑ The Swiss national map currently names the hut (as of 2020) Rifugio Gnifetti CAI and shows an altitude of 3625 m. In earlier versions of the Swiss national map - accessible via the time travel function of the online map - the hut is also referred to as Capanna Gnifetti .