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Rosa (MONTE a mountain or group)

MONTE, a mountain or group of the Pennine Alps, on the frontiers of the Swiss canton of Valais and Piedmont, and forming part of the watershed between the Rhône and the Po. Next to Mont Blanc it is the highest mountain in the Alps, but as a group it is much more massive than the Mont Blanc group. It has eight summits above 14,000 feet, the highest being Dufourspitze (15,217), ascended for the first time in 1855. Of the huge glaciers that occupy the slopes of this mountain the chief are the Görner Glacier on the W., the Schwarzberg and Findelen Glaciers on the N., the S Sesia and Macugnaga Glaciers on the E., and the Lys Glacier on the S.