Monte Viso (or Monviso ) ( Italian: Monte Viso , or Monviso ; ox. Vísol ; drink. Brich Monviso , or Viso ) - the highest peak of the Cote Alps . A peak 3841 meters above sea level is located in Italy in the Piedmont region of the province of Cuneo , near the border with France .
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| Highest point | |
| Absolute height | 3841 [1] m |
| Relative height | 2062 [1] m |
| First climb | August 30, 1861, William Matthews, Frederick Jacombe, Michelle Croe , Jean-Baptiste Croe |
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| Region | Piedmont |
| Mountain system | Western Alps |
| Ridge or array | Cote Alps |
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Name Origin
The name of the peak comes from lat. Mons Vesulus . The word Vesulus has Indo-European roots and means high elevation. In ancient times, Mons Vesulus meant visible from afar (which was a good guide for travelers) and a separate peak, exactly as Monte Vizo is located [2] .
Physico-geographical characteristics
The peak of Monte Vizo is located in the north-west of Italy in the province of Cuneo, about two kilometers southeast of the border with France, and is the highest point of the province and all the Cote Alps [1] . The peak has a pyramidal shape and, due to the fact that all nearby peaks are 500 meters or more lower, it is clearly visible from afar. The relative height of the top of the peak is 2062 meters, which makes Monte Viso the tenth in this indicator among all alpine peaks [3] [4] .
On the northern slope of Monte Viso is the source of the Po River, Italy's longest river. The Monte Vizo massif is surrounded by the valleys of the Po, and Gil rivers. In the north, on the border with France, is the Col de la Traverset pass and the peak of (3214 meters) [4] .
Climbing History
The first climb to the summit of Monte Vizo was made by William Matthews and Frederick Jacob, accompanied by local guides Michel Cro and Jean-Baptiste Cro, August 30, 1861. The group climbed the southern slope, which laid the simplest routes for climbing [5] [6] [7] .
Climbing routes
The classical peak climbing route runs along the southern slope and is the simplest among all the routes to the peak (category III according to the UIAA classification, or PD- according to the IFAF classification). In particular, the first ascent to the summit passed along the classical route. The remaining routes are more difficult, even one of the options for climbing the southern wall with the TD + difficulty category and a slope of up to 50 ° [6] .
Monte Viso in Literature
Monte Viso is mentioned in the works of some authors, Italian and not only.
The ancient Roman poet Virgil in the tenth book of the poem " Aeneid " compared Mezenius (the enemy of Aeneas ) with a wild boar from Vesoul (the ancient Roman name of the peak) [8] :
The boar whose boron is on the slopes of Vesula wild
For many years hid il which is among the swamps of LawrenceOriginal text (lat.)Actus aper, multos Vesulus quem pinifer annos
defendit multosque palus laurentia?
The Italian poet Dante spoke about Monte Vizo in the song XVI of the first part of " Hell " of the work " Divine Comedy ", saying that the mountain is the source of the River [9] [10] [c. 1] :
Like the river that has its course
From Monte Veso towards Dawn
The first leads along the ApenninesOriginal text (Italian)Come quel fiume c'ha proprio cammino
prima dal Monte Viso 'nver' levante,
da la sinistra costa d'Apennino
The English poet Jeffrey Chaucer in The Student Prologue in Canterbury Tales also made a reference to Monte Viso [11] [12] .
Notes
- Comments
- ↑ 94-101. Like that river ... - the Montone river. In the space from Mount Monte Veso (Monviso) in Piedmont, where Po originates, to the east (towards dawn) is the first of the rivers flowing down from the Apennine Range, which take their “course”, that is, it flows not into Po, but straight to the Adriatic. Near the monastery and the village of San Benedetto Gorny, it forms a waterfall.
- Sources
- ↑ 1 2 3 Monte Viso, Italy . peakbagger.com. Date of treatment November 26, 2016.
- ↑ Michelangelo Bruno. Monte Viso: Alpi Cozie meridionali; dal Colle della Maddalena al Colle delle Traversette. Guida dei monti d'Italia / Club Alpino Italiano. - Club Alpino Italiano, 1987. - Vol. 4. - P. 463. - 598 p. - ISBN 8836503160 , 9788836503162.
- ↑ Alpine Peaks with 2000 meters of Prominence . peakbagger.com. Date of treatment November 26, 2016.
- ↑ 1 2 Marcia Lieberman. Walking the Alpine Parks of France & Northwest Italy . - The Mountaineers Books, 1994. - P. 91-98. - 237 p. - ISBN 0898863988 , 9780898863987.
- ↑ John Ball, Édouard Desor. A Guide to the Western Alps . - Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1863. - P. 27-30. - 377 p.
- ↑ 1 2 Mont Viso . camptocamp.org. Date of treatment November 27, 2016.
- ↑ Trevor Braham. When the Alps Cast Their Spell: Mountaineers of the Alpine Golden Age. - In Pinn, 2004 .-- P. 143. - 314 p. - ISBN 1903238749 , 9781903238745.
- ↑ Virgil. Aeneid. Book X . ancientrome.ru. Date of treatment November 27, 2016.
- ↑ Dante Alighieri. Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: Inferno. Italian text and verse translation / Mark Musa. - Indiana University Press, 2004 .-- P. 152. - 352 p. - ISBN 025332968X , 9780253329684.
- ↑ Giovanni Boccaccio. Expositions on Dante's Comedy / Michael Papio. - University of Toronto Press, 2009. - P. 584. - 764 p. - ISBN 0802099750 , 9780802099754.
- ↑ Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales / David Wright, Christopher Cannon. - OUP Oxford, 2011 .-- P. 210. - 517 p. - ISBN 0199599025 , 9780199599028.
- ↑ Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene: With Other Poems of Chaucer and Spenser / Edmund Spenser. - WP Nimmo, 1874. - P. 93. - 616 p. - ISBN 0199599025 , 9780199599028.
Links
- Monte Viso - Piedmont, Italy (inaccessible link - history ) . peakery.com. Date of treatment November 27, 2016.
- Monte Viso summitpost.org. Date of treatment November 27, 2016.