Piz Vatgira
| Piz Vatgira | ||
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 North side of the mountain with Piz Gannaretsch on the left and Val Nalps on the right |
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| height | 2983 m above sea level M. | |
| location | Canton of Graubünden , Switzerland | |
| Mountains | Gotthard massif | |
| Dominance | 1.3 km → Piz Gannaretsch | |
| Notch height | 2822 m ↓ Fuorcla Vatgira | |
| Coordinates | 702 061 / 162516 | |
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| rock | Gneiss | |
| First ascent | August 6, 1895 by Ernst Amberg and Anton Züblin (southern summit) | |
| particularities | The Gotthard Base Tunnel is 2500 meters below the mountain | |
The Piz Vatgira ( , old names are Piz Vitgira , Piz Spescha and Witgiren Mons ) is a mountain with three peaks in the Gotthard massif . The south and middle peaks are 2982 meters high, the north summit is 2983 meters high. It forms an evenly shaped pyramid that sends pronounced ridges to the northeast and south. The southern summit was first climbed on August 6, 1895 by Ernst Amberg and Anton Züblin. The name of the mountain means in the Rhaeto-Romanic idiom Sursilvan vitgira for Fuhre , from the Latin vectura .
2500 meters below the mountain, the breakthrough for the eastern tube of the Gotthard Base Tunnel took place on October 15, 2010 . There this reaches its highest overlap .
Location and surroundings
The mountain belongs to the Maighels-Curnera-Nalps group . The area around Piz Vatgira was previously surrounded by extensive glaciers , but these have now shrunk to individual firn fields due to the alpine-wide glacier melt . Neighboring mountains are in the northeast, separated by the Fuorcla Vatgira , the 3040 meter high Piz Gannaretsch and in the southwest the Piz Lai Blau with 2916 meters. In the west, the area is bordered by the north-south running Val Nalps with the Lai da Nalps reservoir and in the east by Val Medel . In the north lies the Surselva , in the south the Valle Leventina . The next significant town is Disentis in the north . In the southeast lies the Lukmanier Pass with the Lai da Sontga Maria reservoir , and in the northwest the Oberalp Pass .
Tourist development
The easiest route ( normal route ) to the Piz-Vatgira-Südgipfel leads in about two and a half hours from the southern lake Lai Blau (2409 m) over the eastern flank. Another ascent over the south ridge requires knowledge of the WS level of difficulty (not very difficult) . A crossing from south to north over the central summit has the same degree of difficulty. The hospice on the Lukmanier Pass can serve as a base for inspections of the area.
Literature and map
- Hunziker, Brandt, Brenna: SAC-Clubführer Gotthard , Verlag des SAC , Bern 1995, ISBN 3-85902-149-4
- National map of Switzerland 1: 25,000, sheet 1232, Oberalp Pass
- Map sections at map +
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul Niggli, Johann Georg Koenigsberger, Robert Lüling Parker, Swiss Geotechnical Commission: The Minerals of the Swiss Alps, Volume 2 . B. Wepf & Co., 1940.
- ↑ G. Theobald: Das Bündner Oberland , Chur 1861, p. 142
- ↑ SAC-Jahrbuch 1911, p. 148 ff. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hunziker, Brandt, Brenna: SAC-Clubführer Gotthard , Verlag des SAC , Bern 1995, p. 382 ff.
- ↑ Internet site about Tujetsch place and field names
- ↑ The Lord of the Tubes . In: Handelsblatt . No. 200, 15./16. October 2010, p. 62.
- ↑ 217 meters to the main breakthrough . Urs Bloch, Neue Zürcher Zeitung , September 14, 2010.
- ^ Ernst Höhne: The Alps between the Matterhorn and Lake Constance. Knaurs Lexikon für Bergfreunde, Volume 2. Droemer Knaur, Munich, 1987. ISBN 3-426-26223-1
