Monte Disgrazia

Of Northeast

The Monte Disgrazia is the main peak of the valley's Alps and one of the most impressive mountains of the eastern Alps at all.

It measures 3,678 feet and stands apart from the main ridge of the valley's Alps between two side valleys of Valtellina, Val Malenco the east and the Val Masino in the west, so completely on Italian soil ( province of Sondrio). It forms a 600 -meter-long multimodal wall that runs in a north -west - south-easterly direction. Looking down from the northwest or southeast, it appears as a sharp, elegant horn. The Valtellina Sondrio when he towers over almost 3,400 meters.

In contrast to the other Bergeller mountains, which consist of granitic rocks, is established by the Monte Disgrazia talc - olivine - schist and serpentinite.

The standard Ascent from Rifugio Ponti in the southwest of the mountain on the Sella di Pioda and the northwest (G 4, II).

The first ascent was made on August 23, 1862 by Leslie Stephen, Edward Shirley Kennedy and Thomas Cox with Melchior Anderegg as leaders.