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On request some more of the Monte Rosa (...actually I have a lot more, but I am not sure that would bore you ...maybe another mountain?) Anyway, what you see here, far-right of the group in the centre, is the highest point of the Monte Rosa massif: the Dufourspitze (4,634m) The mountain is named after Guillaume-Henri Dufour—a Swiss engineer and army officer who led the Sonderbund campaign—following the completion of the Dufourkarten, a series of military topographical maps created under the command of Dufour. The first ascent was by John Birbeck, Charles Hudson, Ulrich Lauener, Christopher Smyth, James G. Smyth, Edward Stephenson, Matthäus Zumtaugwald and Johannes Zumtaugwald on August 1, 1855. Monte Rosa is not difficult to climb in itself, despite hosting some quite impressive ridges, but can be quite dangerous for rookies and veterans alike, due to sudden weather changes and crevasses in its extensive glaciers, one of the few remaining major glaciated areas in the Alps.