Grivola
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The Grivola
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| Listing | Alpine mountains above 3000 m |
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 Grivola
Italy
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| Location | Aosta Valley, Italy |
| Parent range | Graian Alps |
| Climbing | |
| First ascent | 1859 by Ormsby, Bruce, Ambrogio Dayné, Cachat and Tairraz |
| Easiest route | From Col Lauson (3,296 m) |
The Grivola (3,969 m) is a mountain in the Graian Alps in Italy. It lies between the Valsavarenche and the Cogne Valley.
Etymology
Grivola was named in different ways in the past:
- Pic de Cogne
- Grivolet
- Bec de Grivola
- Aiguille de Grivola
"Grivola" firstly appeared in 1845. Giuseppe Giacosa says is comes from Valdôtain griva, meaning song thrush[2] ((French: grive). Joseph-Marie Henry indicated grivoline ((French: grivoise), a pretty young girl, as for Jungfrau.[3] Paul-Louis Rousset says that the origin is gri in Valgrisenche Valdôtain, meaning "loose stones".[4]
SOIUSA classification
According to SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the mountain is classified in the following way:[5]
- main part = Western Alps
- major sector = North-Western Alps
- section = Graian Alps
- subsection = North-eastern Graian Alps
- supergroup = Catena del Gran Paradiso
- group = Gruppo Grivola-Gran Serra
- subgroup = Sottogruppo della Grivola
- code = I/B-7.IV-A.3.b
Huts
- Refuge Frédéric Chabod (2,750 m)
- Bivacco Luciano Gratton (3,198 m)
- Bivacco Mario Balzola (3,477 m)
- Bivacco Mario Gontier (2,309 m)
- Refuge Victor-Emmanuel II (2,732 m)
- Refuge Victor Sella (2,588 m)[6]
References
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- ↑ Chissà perché si chiamano così, Tipografia Duc, Saint-Christophe, 2011, p. 118.
- ↑ Joseph-Marie Henry, Les ràye di soleil, ed. Mottes, Turin, 1935, p. 30.
- ↑ Paul-Louis Rousset, Ipotesi sulle radici preindoeuropee dei toponimi alpini, ed. Priuli & Verlucca, 1991, p. 62.
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- ↑ www.rifugiosella.com
Maps
- Italian official cartography (Istituto Geografico Militare - IGM); on-line version: www.pcn.minambiente.it
- Istituto Geografico Centrale - Carta dei sentieri e dei rifugi 1:50.000 scale n.3 Parco Nazionale del Gran Paradiso and 1:25.000 n.101 Gran Paradiso, La Grivola, Cogne
External links
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- An ascent of the Clochettes Ridge (in Italian)
