Monte Tagliaferro is a mountain of the

Pennine Alps The Pennine Alps (german: Walliser Alpen, french: Alpes valaisannes, it, Alpi Pennine, la, Alpes Poeninae), also known as the Valais Alps, are a mountain range in the western part of the Alps. They are located in Switzerland (Valais) and Italy ...

. It is one of the most popular hiking destination of Valsesia.

Etymology

The name, which literally means ''iron cutting'', may come from a sharp stone block located not far away from the top.

Geography

The mountain is located in Valsesia ( VC, Piemonte region). Administratively it is divided between the

comune The (; plural: ) is a local administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions ('' regioni'') and provinces ('' province''). The can ...

s of

Alagna Valsesia Alagna Valsesia ( Walser German: ''Im Land'', Piedmontese: ''Alagna'', Valsesiano: ''Lagna'') is a ''comune'' and small village high in the Valsesia alpine valley in the province of Vercelli, Piedmont, northern Italy, a UNESCO World heritage si ...

and Alto Sermenza.

SOIUSA classification

According to the

SOIUSA Alps by SOIUSA. SOIUSA (an acronym for - English: ''International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps-ISMSA'') is a proposal for a new classification system of the Alps from the geographic and toponomastic point of view. It was desig ...

(''International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps'') the mountain can be classified in the following way: * main part =

Western Alps The Western Alps are the western part of the Alpine Range including the southeastern part of France (e.g. Savoie), the whole of Monaco, the northwestern part of Italy (i.e. Piedmont and the Aosta Valley) and the southwestern part of Switzerland ...

* major sector = North Western Alps * section =

* subsection = Eastern Aosta and Northern Valsesia Alps * supergroup = Contrafforti valsesiani del Monte Rosa * group = Costiera Punta Grober-Tagliaferro-Montevecchio * subgroup = Costiera del Tagliaferro * sector of subgroup = Contrafforte Piglimò-Tagliaferro * code = I/B-9.III-C.7.b/a

Access to the summit

The easiest route for the summit starts from

Rima San Giuseppe Rima San Giuseppe ( pms, Rima, Walser German: ''Arimmu'' or ''Ind Rimmu'') is a ''frazione'' of Alto Sermenza in the Province of Vercelli in the Italian region Piedmont, located about north of Turin and about northwest of Vercelli Vercelli (; ...

and reaches the summit passing through Vallarolo pass (2,332 m).''Monte Tagliaferro - 2964 m''
www.vienormali.it
(access: 7-3-2012) Nearby the mountain, at 2,264 m, is located ''Rifugio Ferioli'', a public mountain hut.

Maps

* Italian official cartography ('' Istituto Geografico Militare'' - IGM); on-line version
www.pcn.minambiente.it
* Istituto Geografico Centrale - Carta dei sentieri e dei rifugi scala 1:50.000 n. 10 ''Monte Rosa, Alagna e Macugnaga''

Notes

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