Pizzo Campo Tencia
Pizzo Campo Tencia and Ghiacciaio di Croslina
The Pizzo Campo Tencia, formerly known as Campo Tencca, is a mountain in the Lepontine Alps, between the Leventina valley to the east and the Valle Maggia and its tributary, the Val Lavizzara in the West. With a height of 3,071 m it is the highest mountain which lies entirely within the Canton of Ticino; however, can be found on the borders of the Canton in the Adula Alps and the Monte Basòdino greater heights. With Campo Tencia the glacier is named at the same time, extending north and northeast of the summit towards Val Piumogna - on the map of Switzerland is structured into two areas with glaciers Ghiacciaio Grande ( Lage46.4322178.7300332800 ) or Ghiacciaio Piccolo di Croslina ( Lage46. 437598.7218982800 ) refers. The southern flank into Val di Prato. To the north of Pizzo di Campo Tencia located in the Piz Croslina ( 3'012 m, Lage46.4356118.7210573012 ) and to the east, with the Piz Penca ( 3,038 m, Lage46.4272128.7381633038 ) the other two three-thousand of Campo Tencia group.
The summit is located between the districts of Leventina and Valle Maggia. The border runs along the main ridge in north-west - easterly direction and at the same time forms the municipal boundary between Lavizzara and Chironico.
North Northeast of the Pizzo di Campo Tencia the Capanna Campo Tencia is ( Lage46.4441798.73272140 ), which lies at an altitude of 2,140 m and was built in 1912 as his first time refuge of the SAC section Ticino. Pizzo Campo Tencia was first climbed on August 4, 1867 the Swiss Alps pioneer Gottlieb Samuel Studer, the physician Wilhelm Lindt, a barrister ( lawyer ) Aebi and a carrier named Caveng. The company of Peter Sulzer Guttannen of Dalpe was made out.
Sources and maps
- Marco Volken, Remo Kundert, Teresia Valsesia: Alpine Hiking Ticino. Lonely tours to the south of the Gotthard. SAC -Verlag, Bern 2004, ISBN 978-3-85902-228-7
- Ufficio di federale topografia (ed.): Carta Nazionale della Svizzera 1:25,000, sheet 1272, Pizzo Campo Tencia