Parrotspitze

The Parrotspitze (Punta Parrot in Italian) (4,432 m) is a peak in the Italian and Swiss Pennine Alps. It's in the Monte Rosa Massif, south of Dufourspitze. The peak is named after a German doctor called Johann Jakob Friedrich Wilhelm Parrot, who attempted to climb the Piramide Vincent with Joseph Zumstein in 1816. Reginald S. Macdonald, Florence Crauford Grove, Montagu Woodmass, and William Edward Hall completed the first ascent on August 16, 1863, with guides Melchior Anderegg and Peter Perren, four days after the same party (with an extra guide) accomplished the first ascent of the adjacent Dent d'Hérens.

On July 8, 1862, a party led by A. W. Moore and Hereford Brooke George (the first editor of the Alpine Journal) with guides Christian Almer and Matthias Zumtaugwald climbed the east spur of the Parrotspitze (the British Route) but did not bother to climb the final 60 meters to the summit, instead of crossing the Swiss border.

Elevation: 4,432 m
Location: Valais, Switzerland
Parent peak: Monte Rosa