Parrotspitze

Geschichte

The Parrotspitze is a peak in the Pennine Alps of Italy and Switzerland. It is located south of Dufourspitze in the Monte Rosa Massif. The mountain is named after Johann Jakob Friedrich Wilhelm Parrot, a German doctor, who made an attempt on the Piramide Vincent with Joseph Zumstein in 1816.The first ascent was made by Reginald S. Macdonald, Florence Crauford Grove, Montagu Woodmass and William Edward Hall with guides Melchior Anderegg and Peter Perren on 16 August 1863, four days after the same party's first ascent of the nearby Dent d'Hérens.The previous year, on 8 July 1862, a party comprising A. W. Moore and Hereford Brooke George with guides Christian Almer and Matthias Zumtaugwald climbed the east spur of the Parrotspitze but made straight over the frontier to Switzerland, not bothering to climb the final 60 metres to the summit.