Punta Giordani
Italian, named after Pietro Giordani (1755–1817), the Alagna doctor who made the first ascent of any 4000-metre Monte Rosa point in 1801 — a feat unknown to the wider European alpine community until the Club Alpino Italiano reconstructed the record in the 1860s and renamed the summit in his honour.
Southernmost 4000-metre peak of the Monte Rosa massif, often climbed as a first 4000er from the Indren cable car.
Climbed on 5 September 1801 by Pietro Giordani, the doctor of Alagna, in what is the earliest recorded ascent of any 4000-metre summit in the Monte Rosa group — eighteen years before Vincent's celebrated Pyramid climb. Giordani went alone, prospecting on the south flank of Monte Rosa from the Indren glacier, and his account in a local Alagna newspaper went unnoticed by the European alpine community for decades. The summit was renamed in his honour by the Club Alpino Italiano in the 1860s once the historical record was reconstructed.
Summit · huts that serve as bases for routes on this peak
- Rifugio Capanna Gnifetti3,647 m
- Rifugio Città di Mantova3,498 m