Piz Roseg

Piz Roseg with Tschierva

The Piz Roseg (pronounced Rose -friction, more precisely rozetɕ ) is a prominent free-standing mountain above the Val Roseg in the Bernina Alps in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

The 3'937 m high main peak is separated from the 3'918 m high snow-covered peak by a pronounced saddle. To the east of Piz Roseg is separated by the 3'522 m high saddle Porta da Roseg from Piz Scerscen. The ridge between the main summit and Porta da Roseg carries the 3'868 m high peak of Piccolo Roseg.

• Vadret because Tschierva in the North
• Vadret da la Sella / Vadret da Roseg in the West
• Vadretta di Scerscen superior to the southeast

The state border between Switzerland and Italy runs from the Porta da Roseg on the east ridge until just before the main peak, but bends 70 meters in front of it on the Sellagrat to the southwest from. The main peak located entirely within Switzerland.

The mountain, which was first climbed in 1865 by Adolphus Warburton Moore, Horace Walker and Jakob Anderegg, can be reached most easily from Pontresina through the Val Roseg ( Rosegtal ). Today's normal route to the summit in the ZS- SAC mountain - _and_ - high difficulty scale tour follows the north ridge, even donkey or Middlemoregrat called Romansh: la crasta. Due to the strongly glaciated northeast wall lead numerous challenging Eisanstiege. The first successful ascent of the ice face succeeded Christian Klucker and Ludwig Norman Neruda on 16 June 1890 in only 5 ½ hours. On July 4, 1977 crashed here the famous South Tyrolean Steilwandabfahrer Heini Holzer at the age of 32 years while attempting the first ski descent into death.

With the Chamanna because Tschierva that lies at an altitude of 2,583 m above Tschierva, and the 2,610 m high Cham Coaz in the farthest Rosegtal are two SAC huts as alpine bases available.