Piz Fess

Piz Fess is a mountain of the Lepontine Alps, situated between the Val Lumnezia and Safiental in the canton of Graubünden. Piz Fess is the culminating point of the Signina range (Romansh: Cadeina dil Signina).

Piz Fess
View from Laax (north side)
Highest point
Elevation	2,880 m (9,450 ft)
Prominence	501 m (1,644 ft)[1]
Parent peak	Rheinwaldhorn
Coordinates	46°43′40.9″N 9°17′22.7″E
Geography
Piz Fess Location in Switzerland
Location	Graubünden, Switzerland
Parent range	Lepontine Alps
Climbing
First ascent	10 August 1895 by Karl Viescher, Wieland Wieland and J. Christoffel.[2]

The mountain has two summits, a gentle summit named the Guter Fess ("Good Fess"; 2,874 m) and a not so gentle one named Böser Fess ("Angry Fess"; 2,880 m). In 1894 the pinnacle was still described as unclimbable, but the next summer Karl Viescher from Basel and the local guides Wieland Wieland and J. Christoffel reached the sharp summit.^[2]

The summit of Böser Fess seen from the Guter Fess

References

1. Swisstopo map
2. W. Deriehsweiler, Das Safiental, Yearbook of the Swiss Alpin Club, 1919, p. 111

External links

• Piz Fess on Hikr