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Gioveretto

Lago di Gioveretto takes its name from the mountain, not the other way round.

Gioveretto
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The Gioveretto, called Zufrittspitze in German, reaches 3,439 metres and belongs to the Ortles-Cevedale range, in the southern Rhaetian Alps. It stands between the val Martello and the val d'Ultimo, in Alto Adige, and overlooks lago di Gioveretto, which took its name from the mountain.

The ascent starts from the val d'Ultimo. You leave the car in the parking area above lago di Fontana Bianca and reach the rifugio Umberto Canziani, at 2,560 metres, through a larch wood and then up a steep valley to be climbed in zigzags. From there the climb changes character: scree and expanses of loose rubble, a gully beside a perennial snowfield, a crossing of about forty metres on the vedretta del Gioveretto.

The last stretch is a scramble over easy rocky steps and up a dihedral equipped with fixed ropes. From lago di Fontana Bianca to the summit it takes about five hours.

Height
3,439 m
German name
Zufrittspitze
From Fontana Bianca
about 5 hours
Group
Ortles Alps
Prominence
291 m

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