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Torre del Gran San Pietro

Coordinates: 45°31′36″N 07°21′29″E / 45.52667°N 7.35806°E / 45.52667; 7.35806
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Torre del Gran San Pietro
Tour du Grand-Saint-Pierre
Torre del Gran San Pietro over the Coupé de Money glacier
Highest point
Elevation3,692 m (12,113 ft)
Prominence332 m (1,089 ft) Edit this on Wikidata
Isolation7.05 km (4.38 mi) Edit this on Wikidata
ListingAlpine mountains above 3000 m
Coordinates45°31′36″N 07°21′29″E / 45.52667°N 7.35806°E / 45.52667; 7.35806
Geography
Torre del Gran San Pietro Tour du Grand-Saint-Pierre is located in Alps
Torre del Gran San Pietro Tour du Grand-Saint-Pierre
Torre del Gran San Pietro
Tour du Grand-Saint-Pierre
Location in the Alps
LocationAosta Valley, Italy
Parent rangeGraian Alps
Climbing
First ascent14 July 1867

Torre del Gran San Pietro (French: Tour du Grand-Saint-Pierre) is a mountain in the Gran Paradiso massif, a sub-group of the Graian Alps, with an elevation of 3,692 m. It is located between Piedmont and Aosta Valley, in northern Italy, near the Cogne Valley.

First ascent

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In 1865 Amé Gorret, Martino Baretti, and Jean-Pierre Carrel reached a subsidiary summit on the crest of the mountain, which they subsequently dubbed Pic du Retour.[1] Two years later, Daniel Ballay and Michel Payot guided Douglas Freshfield, C. C. Tucker, T. H. Carson, and J. H. Backhouse to the main summit.[2]

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