# Viso Mozzo

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The **Viso Mozzo** is a 3,019 metres high mountain on the Italian side of the [Cottian Alps](/source/Cottian_Alps).

## Toponymy

In [Italian](/source/Italian_language) *viso* means *face*, but in this context refers to the [Monviso](/source/Monviso), which is very close to the Viso Mozzo, and *mozzo* means *cut off*. Thus the whole name should mean *Cut-off Monviso*; an old local name of the mountain is *Viso-Mout*.[1]

## Geography

Viso Mozzo is located in the upper [Valle Po](/source/Valle_Po) and stands east-north-est of [Monviso](/source/Monviso), from which is divided by the *colle dei Viso* (*Viso Pass*).[2] Its western side, facing Monviso, is a long and almost uniform rock-field, while the other faces of the mountain are more irregular.

### SOIUSA classification

According to [SOIUSA](/source/SOIUSA) (*International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps*) the mountain can be classified in the following way:[3]

- main part = [Western Alps](/source/Western_Alps)
- major sector = South Western Alps
- section = [Cottian Alps](/source/Cottian_Alps)
- subsection = Southern Cottian Alps
- supergroup = Gruppo del Monviso i.s.a.
- group = Gruppo del Monviso p.d.
- subgroup = Nodo del Monte Viso
- [code](/source/SOIUSA_code) = I/A-4.I-C.8.a

## Access to the summit

The [normal route](/source/Normal_route) to the Viso Mozzo runs across the west face of the mountain and does not requires .[2] Starting from *[Pian del Re](/source/Pian_del_Re)* (known as the [river Po](/source/Po_(river)) source, 2,020 metres), one can follow the nr.*V13* footpath leading to the [alpine hut](/source/Mountain_hut) *[Quintino Sella](/source/Rifugio_Quintino_Sella_al_Monviso)*.[4] At *colle dei Viso*, leaving the main footpath and turning left, following some [cairns](/source/Cairn), in roughly one hour is possible to reach the mountain top, marked by a metallic [summit cross](/source/Summit_cross) and offering an interesting view both on the Monviso massif and on the [Po plain](/source/Po_plain).[2]

## Mountain huts

- Rifugio Quintino Sella al Monviso (2,640 m).

## References

1. Gastaldi, Bartolomeo (1865). ["Sulla riescavazione dei bacini lacustri"](https://books.google.com/books?id=EbgoAQAAMAAJ&q=viso+mozzo+viso+tagliato&pg=PR27). *Memorie della Società Italiana di Scienze naturali* (in Italian). G. Bernardoni. p. 17. Retrieved 2018-12-06.

1. Giulio Berutto, *Monviso e le sue valli - Vol. 2*, Istituto Geografico Centrale, Torino, 1991

1. Marazzi, Sergio (2005). *Atlante Orografico delle Alpi. SOIUSA* (in Italian). Priuli & Verlucca. p. 85. ISBN 978-88-8068-273-8.

1. Provincia di Cuneo, *Guida dei sentieri alpini della Provincia di Cuneo - vol. 1 - valli Po, Varaita, Maira*

## Maps

- [Istituto Geografico Militare](/source/Istituto_Geografico_Militare) (IGM) official maps of Italy, 1:25.000 and 1:100.000 scale, [on-line version](http://www.pcn.minambiente.it/viewer_old/)
- [Sistema Informativo Territoriale della Provincia di Cuneo](http://gis.provincia.cuneo.it/mappe/ClientServlet?CMD=Init&MAPWIDTH=930&MAPHEIGHT=824&OVMAPWIDTH=150&OVMAPHEIGHT=125&MINSCALE=101000&VIEWID=73) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20130703134517/http://gis.provincia.cuneo.it/mappe/ClientServlet?CMD=Init&MAPWIDTH=930&MAPHEIGHT=824&OVMAPWIDTH=150&OVMAPHEIGHT=125&MINSCALE=101000&VIEWID=73) 2013-07-03 at the Wayback Machine, based on a 1:10.000 scale numeric map of Regione Piemonte
- Istituto Geografico Centrale, *Carta dei sentieri* 1:50.000 scale nr. 6, *Monviso*, and 1:25.000 scale nr. 106, *Monviso - Sampeyre - Bobbio Pellice*

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