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| Piz Nuna   | 
| Page Type: Mountain/Rock Location: Grisons / Graubünden, Switzerland, Europe Lat/Lon: 46.68996°N / 10.23376°E Activities: Mountaineering, Skiing Season: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter Elevation: 10249 ft / 3124 m | Page By: Gangolf Haub, Cyrill Created/Edited: Sep 26, 2008 / Feb 16, 2011 Object ID: 446613 Hits: 2477 Loading... Page Score: 88.41% - 17 Votes Loading... Vote: Log in to vote |
OverviewPiz Nuna 3124m is a mountain in the eastern part of Switzerland, in the Swiss canton Grisons (Graubünden). He is located in the Rhaetian Alps and the Sesvenna Group. The mountain is in the northeast of the village Zernez and in the north of the Ofen mountain pass road (Ofenpass / Pass dal Fuorn). In the southeast of the mountain is the Stragliavita pass 2687m (Fuorcla Stragliavita). And it still has a small glacier in the north of the mountain, the Nuna glacier (Vadret da Nuna).
In the west of the mountain are the unique Macun - lakes. These are protected and are especially beautiful.Getting ThereFrom South Tyrol / Alto Adige
- Take SS38 from Bozen / Bolzano through Meran / Merano and Vinschgau / Val Venosta.
- At Spondinig / Spondigna turn onto SS40 to Schluderns / Sluderno.
- Here turn onto SS41 which leads into Switzerland.
- Called B28 there the road leads across Ofenpass / Pass dal Fuorn.
- The designated parking area is at Prada Laschadura, 1748m
From Lombardia
- Take SS38 direction Stilfser Joch / Passo di Stelvio.
- At Bormio turn onto SP301, to Livigno and onto B28, the Ofenpass / Pass dal Fuorn Road.
From Switzerland (Zürich)
- Take motorway A3 east to Vaduz.
- At exit Bad Ragaz take B28 to Davos and across Füelapass to Zernez.
- Stay on B28 direction Ofenpass / Pass dal Fuorn
From Austria
- From Landeck take B180 across Reschenpass / Passo di Resia into South Tyrol / Alto Adige.
- The road, SS40 in Italy, takes you to Mals / Malles Venosta.
- Here, turn onto a side road through Laatsch / Laudes, which heads for Switzerland, joining SS41 several kilometres in front of the border.
- Called B28 in Switzerland it crosses Ofenpass / Pass dal Fuorn and leads to the parking area at Prada Laschadura, 1748m.
Red TapePiz Nuna and the surrounding western tip of the Sesvenna Group belong to Schweizerischer Nationalpark / Parco Nazionale Svizzero which has severe restrictions. For instance you are not allowed to leave trails or to park cars only in designated areas.
Find more information on the websites of the parks:
Weather Conditions
AccommodationMaps & BooksMaps
- Digital Maps
- Regular Maps
- Unterengadin-Nationalpark
Kompass Map WK 98
1:50.000
ISBN: 3-85491-331-1
Books
- Unterengadin
Rudolf Weiss / Siegrun Weiss
Rother Verlag
ISBN: 3-7633-4043-2
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. Images
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