Pizzo Campo Tencia
| Pizzo Campo Tencia | ||
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 Pizzo Campo Tencia and Ghiacciaio di Croslina |
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| height | 3,071.7 m above sea level M. | |
| location | Ticino , Switzerland | |
| Mountains | Ticino Alps / Lepontine Alps | |
| Dominance | 17.1 km → Scopí | |
| Notch height | 754 m ↓ Passo Campolungo | |
| Coordinates | 698 944 / 142 859 | |
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| First ascent | August 4, 1867 by Gottlieb Samuel Studer , Wilhelm Lindt, an advocate Aebi, mountain guide Peter Sulzer and the porter Caveng | |
The Pizzo Campo Tencia , formerly also called Campo Tencca , is a mountain in the Lepontine Alps , between the Leventina in the east and the Valle Maggia and its side valley, the Val Lavizzara , in the west. With a height of 3072 m above sea level. M. it is the highest mountain that lies entirely within the canton of Ticino ; however, there are even higher peaks on the borders of the canton in the Adula Alps , in the Gotthard massif and with the Basòdino .
geography
The summit is located between the Leventina and Vallemaggia districts . The border runs along the main ridge in a north-west-east direction and also forms the municipal boundary between Lavizzara and Chironico . North-northeast of Pizzo di Campo Tencia is the Capanna Campo Tencia , which is at an altitude of 2140 m and was built in 1912 as the first refuge of the Ticino section of the SAC .
Campo Tencia is also the name of the glacier that extends north and northeast of the summit towards Val Piumogna - on the map of Switzerland , the glacier, which is divided into two areas, is designated Ghiacciaio Grande ( location ) and Ghiacciaio Piccolo di Croslina ( location ). The southern flank leads into Val di Prato. North of Pizzo di Campo Tencia are the Piz Croslina ( 3012 m , location ) and east to the Piz Penca ( 3038 m , location ) the other two three-thousand of Campo Tencia group.
First ascent
The Pizzo Campo Tencia was first climbed on August 4, 1867 by the Swiss Alpine pioneer Gottlieb Samuel Studer , the doctor Wilhelm Lindt, an advocate (lawyer) Aebi and a porter named Caveng. The company was led by Peter Sulzer from Guttannen from Dalpe .
Literature and map
- Marco Volken, Remo Kundert, Teresia Valsesia: Alpine hiking in Ticino. Lonely tours south of the Gotthard. SAC- Verlag, Bern 2004, ISBN 978-3-85902-228-7
- Ufficio federale di topografia (ed.): Carta Nazionale della Svizzera 1: 25,000, sheet 1272, Pizzo Campo Tencia
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gottlieb Samuel Studer in: Yearbook of the Swiss Alpine Club , fifth year, Bern 1868 - 1869, p. 124 ff.
