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Diavolezza (2'972 m)

nobody@ipernity.com (polytropos) — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 05:51:02 +0000

Happy Fence Friday !

From here one has numerous possibilities to do a glacier hike.

"Diavolezza" means "she-devil" in the Rhaeto-Romanic language. The name comes from a legend:
Many years ago a wonderful mountain fairy lived at Munt Pers ("lost mountain", Rhaeto-Romanic). She was seldom seen by hunters and was often admired when she crossed the slopes of the Munt Pers to "Lej da la Diavolezza" (Lake of the She-devil) to take a bath. Then the young hunters became careless. They followed her over the rocks to her castle. But one hunter after the other disappeared. And so it happened to Aratsch, a young man from the village. Everywhere they looked for him in vain and finally they assumed he had fallen into a crevasse or crashed down. For those who were in the region at nightfall, carried by the wind, heard the plaintive voice of Diavolezza calling out: "Mort ais Aratsch!" (Aratsch is dead). Hence the name of the Alp Morteratsch in the basin of the Bernina group.

► See also PiP.

(46.41191, 09.96524); [200°] – swisstopo

look around

nobody@ipernity.com (polytropos) — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 09:23:58 +0000

polytropos has posted:

Munt Pers – Panorama 180°
Panorama vom Munt Pers (3'207m / 10'520ft) in Richtung Morteratsch Gletscher.
Links die drei Spitzen des Piz Palü (3'900m / 12'800ft).
Rechts davon der Piz Bernina (4'049m / 13'285 ft).
Ganz rechts das Val Bernina mit Blick nach Pontresina.

(46.42139, 09.95351); [250°]

glacier experience

nobody@ipernity.com (polytropos) — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 07:07:23 +0000

polytropos has posted:

Diavolezza – start to a hike on the glacier.

To the left the three peaks of Piz Palü (3'900 m / 12'800 ft).
To the right the Piz Bernina (4'049 m / 13'285 ft).
In the foreground the Vadret Pers glacier.

► swisstopo map

(46.41173, 09.96507); [190°]