Monte Cinto

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Monte Cinto
Monte Cinto from Capu Biancu (2562 m).

Monte Cinto from Capu Biancu ( 2562  m ).

height 2706  m
location Corsica , France
Mountains Cinto massif
Dominance 223 km →  Mont Bégo
Notch height 2706 m
Coordinates 42 ° 23 ′ 0 ″  N , 8 ° 56 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 42 ° 23 ′ 0 ″  N , 8 ° 56 ′ 0 ″  E
Monte Cinto (Upper Corse)
Monte Cinto
rock Granite , rhyolite
Age of the rock Carbon - Permian
Normal way Mountain tour
particularities highest mountain in Corsica
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The Monte Cinto ( Corsican : Cintu ) is 2706 meters high, the highest mountain on the Mediterranean island of Corsica , it is located in the Cinto massif in the north-western Corsican high mountains. The mountain sends pronounced ridges to the northeast and southwest and is often climbed in both summer and winter because of its good panoramic views. The first documented tourist ascent of the Cinto took place on June 6, 1882 by the French alpinist Edouard Rochat. On May 26, 1883, Francis Fox Tuckett , Edward Theodore Compton and the mountain guide Henri Dévouassoud reached the summit.

Location, environment and geology

The Cinto massif is located in the northwest of the Corsican high mountains in the Haute-Corse department . In the northwest the Cinto drops into the Asco valley, in the south lies the valley of the Golo . An important neighboring mountain in the northeast is the 2583 meter high Capu au Verdatu , to the southwest is the Punta des Eboulis at 2607 meters. To the south below is the lake Lac du Cinto . Monte Cinto is part of a complex, deeply eroded volcanic caldera from the Carboniferous to Permian and consists of a variety of rocks. Different granites in different colors as well as rhyolites are the components of the Cinto. The closest significant settlement is Albertacce , which is about four and a half kilometers as the crow flies in a south-easterly direction in the Golo valley.

Tourist development

Since the Cinto is close to the GR 20 long-distance hiking trail , it is often climbed from Réfuge Tighiettu , (Réfuge: refuge ) to the southwest, along the Ravin de Valle di Stagni gorge and the Bocca Crucetta (Bocca: mountain saddle ) in around four hours of walking . A shorter ascent is possible from Réfuge de l'Ercu (1667 m) to the southeast , above Albertacce. This was also the path of the first to climb. From Haut Asco , a ski base in winter, the Cinto can be climbed from a north-westerly direction in around six hours. All climbs lead in easy climbing partly over blockwork.

Literature and map

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Report by Édouard Rochat in: Annuaire du Club Alpin Français , Paris 1883, p. 342 ff.
  2. ↑ Philippe Rossi, Alain Cocherie, C. Mark Fanning: Evidence in Variscan Corsica of a letter and voluminous Late Carboniferous to Early Permian volcanic-plutonic events contemporaneous with a high-temperature / low-pressure metamorphic peak in the lower crust. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France (2015) 186 (2-3): 171-192. (English)
  3. ↑ Willi and Kristin Hausmann: Korsika GR 20 , Munich 2012, p. 64 f.
  4. ↑ Website with descriptions of the ascent

Web links

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