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| Page Type: Mountain/Rock Location: Grisons / Graubünden, Switzerland, Europe Lat/Lon: 46.44164°N / 9.74419°E Activities: Mountaineering, Skiing Season: Spring, Summer, Fall Elevation: 10384 ft / 3165 m | Page By: Cyrill Created/Edited: Mar 18, 2008 / Jun 20, 2009 Object ID: 389049 Hits: 1243 Loading... Page Score: 88.86% - 18 Votes Loading... Vote: Log in to vote |
In Memory of Cyrill Rüegger A note from the SP staff
Cyrill Rüegger, the member we all used to know as Cyrill and Digitalis, died on June 13th 2009 in an avalanche on the summit ridge of Piz Palü together with his wife Tanja and a common friend. They were swept down by the avalanche into a couloir underneath the east summit and died instantly. Their bodies were retrieved from the Palü Glacier by helicopter a day after the accident.
Cyrill joined SP in March 2006 and soon was one of the most prolific contributors on the site with almost 70 mountain and 5 range pages to his profile. He was an accomplished climber, bagging almost 1000 summits in not quite seven years. Among them are 35 4000ers and 272 3000ers, almost all of them in his home country Switzerland.
While contributing a lot on SP, Cyrill's real internet home was www.hikr.org where he contributed 585 mountain profiles and reports in his native language German. Cyrill also posted on www.bergsteigen.at and other climbing sites, often under his real name but also under the pseudonym Digitalis. He was a botanist by profession and also contributed his knowledge about medical plants to different websites. Cyrill will be greatly missed by all.
This page will be kept in honour of Cyrill, one of SP's most prolific members and most active mountaineers.
Rest in peace, brother!
The picture above was taken on the summit of Matterhorn on July 28th 2007.OverviewPiz Lagrev 3165m is a mountain in Switzerland, in the canton Grisons. Lagrev belongs to the Albula Group and the Rhaetian Alps. Piz Lagrev is in the proximity of the Julier mountain pass 2284m and the villages Sils im Engadin and Maloja at the lake Silsersee. To the northeast of the summit you find the glacier "Vadret Lagrev". The last small glacier in this area, it stands for something lost there. To the northwest you find the beautiful mountain lake "Leg Grevasalvas" 2390m. Piz Lagrev is a popular mountain in summer as well as in spring with ski. Particularly with ski it is visited frequently from the pass road.
Link to Piz Lagrev tour: www.skitour-piz-lagrev.ch
Route & DifficultySummer route:
Julier pass / Alp Güglia 2161m - Gianda Lagrev 2659m - glacier lake at 2721m - Vadret Lagrev - Piz Lagrev north 3109m - north ridge - Piz Lagrev main summit 3164,5m.
Difficulty: L-WS (F-PD)
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Ski tour route:
Julier pass / Alp Güglia 2161m - Gianda Lagrev 2659m - glacier lake at 2721m - Vadret Lagrev - Piz Lagrev north 3109m - north ridge - Piz Lagrev main summit 3164,5m.
Difficulty: ZS- ¦ Route: 462 ¦ 950 metres in altitude
btw. Piz Lagrev is a fantastic ski tour.
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Online maps for Switzerland:
www.mapplus.ch
Map Search - Online Maps
AccommodationsSleep in a hotel or guest-house in St.Moritz or Maloja. In Maloja there is a youth hostel.
Link: www.youthhostel.ch or Tourism St.Moritz
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Good and favorable accommodations: www.rooms.ch Getting ThereBy public transport:
SBB & RHB-railway from Chur to St.Moritz. Change to the yellow post bus to the village Silvaplana, there you have to order a taxi.
Online train&bus schedule (public transport Switzerland): SBB schedule
By car:
From Chur to the village Tiefencastel. Forward to villages Savognin, Bivio and over the Julier pass to the parking at Alp Güglia 2161m.
Online Route scheduler: route scheduler in english and TCS.ch
Weather, climate and snow conditions in SwitzerlandFederal Office of Meteorology and Climatology
Weather SFDRS
Meteo News.ch
Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research Davos: www.slf.ch LinksLink to Piz Lagrev tour: www.skitour-piz-lagrev.ch
Switzerland tourism: www.myswitzerland.com
Gisons tourism: www.graubünden.ch
Good and favorable accommodations: www.rooms.ch Images
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