Picco Luigi Amedeo

Named after Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of the Abruzzi (1873–1933) — the Italian prince who climbed Mount Saint Elias in Alaska in 1897, set an altitude record on K2 in 1909 with Vittorio Sella, and led the most ambitious Italian expeditions of the late colonial era. The peak is a granite shoulder on the Brouillard ridge above Val Veni and was first climbed in 1901 by the Italian party of Karl Blodig with the guides Laurent Croux and Alexis Brocherel, on a campaign of Brouillard-side ascents. Blodig, an Austrian dentist, would in 1911 become the first person to climb every then-recognised 4000-metre peak of the Alps.