Dufourspitze

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Dufourspitze <tr><td style="border-top:1px solid #999966; text-align: center;" colspan=2>Image:MonteRosaWestseite gesehenVomGornergrat.JPG Monte Rosa massif, Dufourspitze (far-right of the group in the centre)</td></tr>
Elevation	4,634 metres (15,203 feet)
Location	Aosta Valley and Piedmont, Italy and Valais, Switzerland <tr><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; border-right: 1px solid #999966; background: #e7dcc3; width: 85px">Range</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; width: 220px">Pennine Alps</td></tr><tr><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; border-right: 1px solid #999966; background: #e7dcc3; width: 85px">Prominence</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; width: 220px">2165m ranked 7th in the Alps</td></tr><tr><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; border-right: 1px solid #999966; background: #e7dcc3; width: 85px">Coordinates</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; width: 220px">45°56′12″N, 7°52′00″E</td></tr><tr><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; border-right: 1px solid #999966; background: #e7dcc3; width: 85px">First ascent</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; width: 220px">1855</td></tr><tr><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; border-right: 1px solid #999966; background: #e7dcc3; width: 85px">Easiest route</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; width: 220px">rock/snow/ice climb</td></tr>

Dufourspitze

<tr><td style="border-top:1px solid #999966; text-align: center;" colspan=2>Image:MonteRosaWestseite gesehenVomGornergrat.JPG
Monte Rosa massif, Dufourspitze (far-right of the group in the centre)</td></tr>

Elevation

4,634 metres (15,203 feet)

Location

Aosta Valley and Piedmont, Italy and Valais, Switzerland

<tr><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; border-right: 1px solid #999966; background: #e7dcc3; width: 85px">Range</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; width: 220px">Pennine Alps</td></tr><tr><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; border-right: 1px solid #999966; background: #e7dcc3; width: 85px">Prominence</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; width: 220px">2165m ranked 7th in the Alps</td></tr><tr><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; border-right: 1px solid #999966; background: #e7dcc3; width: 85px">Coordinates</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; width: 220px">45°56′12″N, 7°52′00″E</td></tr><tr><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; border-right: 1px solid #999966; background: #e7dcc3; width: 85px">First ascent</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; width: 220px">1855</td></tr><tr><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; border-right: 1px solid #999966; background: #e7dcc3; width: 85px">Easiest route</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; width: 220px">rock/snow/ice climb</td></tr>

Dufourspitze (in German), Pointe Dufour (in French) or Punta Dufour (in Italian), is located in the Pennine Alps, on the watershed between Italy and Switzerland. It is the highest mountain of Switzerland and the peak is the high point of the Monte Rosa massif, being surrounded by the Nordend, Silbersattel, Grenzsattel and Signalkuppe subpeaks.

The mountain is named after Guillaume-Henri Dufour—a Swiss engineer and army officer who led the Sonderbund campaign—following the completion of the Dufourkarten, a series of military topographical maps created under the command of Dufour.

The first ascent was by John Birbeck, Charles Hudson, Ulrich Lauener, Christopher Smyth, James G. Smyth, Edward Stephenson, Matthäus Zumtaugwald and Johannes Zumtaugwald on August 1, 1855.