The Parrotspitze (in Italian, the Punta Parrot ) (4,434 m) is a peak in the Pennine Alps of Italy and Switzerland . It is located south of Dufourspitze in the Monte Rosa Massif . The mountain is named after Johann Jakob Friedrich Wilhelm Parrot , a German doctor, who made an attempt on the Piramide Vincent with Joseph Zumstein in 1816.
6-406: The first ascent was made by Reginald S. Macdonald, Florence Crauford Grove , Montagu Woodmass and William Edward Hall with guides 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 . The previous year, on 8 July 1862, a party comprising A. W. Moore and Hereford Brooke George (the first editor of
12-737: A "gentleman traveller of independent means". Because of his first name, Grove is sometimes mistakenly thought to have been a woman. His second name is Crauford. Grove's book is illustrated with six plates by Edward Whymper , from photographs by Horace Walker, and a folding map. Chapters cover the Upper Rion, the valley of the Upper Tcherek river, the Bezingi glacier and the Kotchan Tau Group (both in Kabardino-Balkaria , Russia ), Tchegem and
18-462: A mountain, mountain range, or peak located in Aosta Valley is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Florence Crauford Grove Florence Crauford Grove (12 March 1838 – 17 August 1902) was an English mountaineer and author , sometimes known as F. Crauford Grove . He led the first expedition to ascend the higher summit of Mount Elbrus and was at one time president of
24-626: The Alpine Journal ) with guides 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. This article about a mountain, mountain range, or peak located in Valais is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about
30-589: The Alpine Club . Grove became an experienced alpinist in the late 1850s and joined the Alpine Club of London soon after it was formed in 1857, later serving as its president from 1884 to 1886. He was one of the best British climbers of his day and is remembered for opposing guideless climbing during the 1870s. An article on the founders of the Alpine Club in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him
36-714: The Gorge of the Djilki-Su, Urusbieh, the first ascent of Mount Elbruz (in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay–Cherkessia ), and the Nakhar Pass (in Georgia ). The Frosty Caucasus was republished in a facsimile edition by Adamant Media Corporation in February 2002 ( ISBN 978-1402184468 ). The title of the book is taken from William Shakespeare 's play Richard II - O, who can hold
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