Piz Nair (Oberalp)
| Piz Nair | ||
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 The Piz Nair from the north |
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| height | 3059 m above sea level M. | |
| location | Canton Uri / Canton Graubünden , Switzerland | |
| Mountains | Alps ( Glarus Alps ) | |
| Dominance | 1.24 km → Piz Giuv | |
| Notch height | 229 m ↓ Fuorcla Piz Nair | |
| Coordinates | 697 155 / 172 759 | |
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| First ascent | 1865 by Ambros Zgraggen and F. Zahn over the northwest ridge | |
| Normal way | Northwest ridge ( II. Degree of difficulty , partly very brittle) | |
The Piz Nair is 3059 m above sea level. M. high mountain in the Glarus Alps . It lies north of the Surselva and east of the Reuss Valley . The border between the Swiss cantons of Uri and Graubünden runs above its summit .
The summit lies in the chain that leads from Piz Giuv to the east over the Chrüzli Pass ( 2347 m above sea level ) to Oberalpstock . To the south, three shorter cross ridges branch off, which separate four valleys, Val Strem , Val Milà , Val Giuv and Val Val (from east to west).
To the north is the Maderanertal , of which the 2052 m above sea level. M. lying Etzlihütte ( SAC ) can be achieved in the same Etzlital.
First ascent
The Piz Nair was first climbed in 1865 by Ambros Zgraggen and F. Zahn over the northwest ridge. Only five minutes later, the Uri leader Josef Maria Tresch-Exer reached the summit together with his brother Johann Josef Tresch (later known as Felli-Tresch) with the Englishmen Thompson, Mansell and Sowerby. They used the north ridge.
Surname
The name nair comes from the Latin niger and stands for 'black' in Rhaeto-Romanic . The Dufour and Siegfried cards (both 19th century) still had the old spelling Piz Ner . According to sources, Piz Nair was formerly called Crispalt by the people of Uri. However, a peak around 2 km southwest of Piz Nair also bears the name Crispalt ( 3075 m ). By Placidus a Spescha (1752-1833) the Piz Nair was called the front Wichel .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c The Piz Nair on top-of-uri.ch ( Memento of the original from August 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Andrea Schorta: How the mountain got its name . Small Rhaetian name book with two and a half thousand geographical names of Graubünden. Terra Grischuna Verlag, Chur and Bottmingen / Basel 1988, ISBN 3-7298-1047-2 , p. 108 .
