# Parrotspitze

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{{short description|Mountain in Switzerland}}
{{Infobox mountain
| name = Parrotspitze
| image = Punta Parrot0002.jpg
| image_size = 285
| image_caption = The Parrotspitze, with the [Signalkuppe](/source/Signalkuppe) (right)
| elevation_m = 4434
| elevation_ref = 
| prominence = 134 m<span title="above the wind-gap"> ↓ </span>Seserjoch
| prominence_ref = <ref>[Swisstopo](/source/Swisstopo) maps</ref>
| isolation  = 0.9 km<span title="to"> → </span>[Signalkuppe](/source/Signalkuppe)
| parent_peak = [Monte Rosa](/source/Monte_Rosa)
| map = Alps
| map_caption = Location in the Alps
| location = [Aosta Valley](/source/Aosta_Valley), [Italy](/source/Italy) /<br> [Valais](/source/Valais), [Switzerland](/source/Switzerland)
| range = [Pennine Alps](/source/Pennine_Alps)
| coordinates = {{coord|45|55|11|N|7|52|17|E|type:mountain_region:CH_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| range_coordinates = 
| first_ascent = 16 August 1863 by Reginald S. Macdonald, [Florence Crauford Grove](/source/Florence_Crauford_Grove), Montagu Woodmass and William Edward Hall, with guides [Melchior Anderegg](/source/Melchior_Anderegg) and Peter Perren
| easiest_route = Glacier tour via west ridge
}}

The '''Parrotspitze''' (in Italian, the '''Punta Parrot''') (4,434 m) is a [peak](/source/mountain) in the [Pennine Alps](/source/Pennine_Alps) of [Italy](/source/Italy) and [Switzerland](/source/Switzerland). It is located south of [Dufourspitze](/source/Dufourspitze) in the [Monte Rosa Massif](/source/Monte_Rosa_Massif). The mountain is named after [Johann Jakob Friedrich Wilhelm Parrot](/source/Friedrich_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](/source/Florence_Crauford_Grove), Montagu Woodmass and William Edward Hall with guides [Melchior Anderegg](/source/Melchior_Anderegg) and Peter Perren on 16 August 1863, four days after the same party's (with an extra guide) first ascent of the nearby [Dent d'Hérens](/source/Dent_d'H%C3%A9rens).

The previous year, on 8 July 1862, a party comprising [A. W. Moore](/source/Adolphus_Warburton_Moore) and [Hereford Brooke George](/source/Hereford_Brooke_George) (the first editor of the ''[Alpine Journal](/source/Alpine_Journal)'') with guides [Christian Almer](/source/Christian_Almer) and Matthias Zumtaugwald climbed the east spur of the Parrotspitze (the ''British Route'') but made straight over the frontier to Switzerland, not bothering to climb the final 60 metres to the summit.

==See also==
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*[List of 4000 metre peaks of the Alps](/source/List_of_4000_metre_peaks_of_the_Alps)

==References==
{{reflist}}
* Dumler, Helmut and Willi P. Burkhardt, ''The High Mountains of the Alps'', London: Diadem, 1994
* Collomb, Robin G., (ed.), ''Pennine Alps Central'', London: Alpine Club, 1975

==External links==
* [http://www.summitpost.org/area/range/150342/monte-rosa-group.html The Parrotspitze on SummitPost]

Category:Alpine four-thousanders
Category:Mountains of the Alps
Category:Mountains of Italy
Category:Mountains of Valais
Category:Pennine Alps
Category:Italy–Switzerland border
Category:International mountains of Europe
Category:Monte Rosa
Category:Mountains of Switzerland
Category:Four-thousanders of Switzerland

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