Rognosa d'Etiache

Rognosa d'Etiache
French: Rognosa d'Étache
View from Rifugio Scarfiotti
Highest point
Elevation	3,382 m (11,096 ft)[1]
Prominence	583[2][1]
Parent peak	Aiguille de Scolette
Isolation	5.86 km (3.64 mi)
Listing	Alpine mountains above 3000 m
Coordinates	45°08′07″N 06°50′06″E
Geography
Rognosa d'Etiache Alps
Location	Rhône-Alpes, France Piedmont, Italy
Parent range	Ambin group (Cottian Alps)
Climbing
First ascent	1875 by Augusto Sibille (SE summit) [3]
Easiest route	from Rifugio Scarfiotti

Rognosa d'Etiache (in Italian) or Rognosa d'Étache (in French) is a mountain in the Cottian Alps on the border of Turin, Italy, and Savoie, France. It has an elevation of 3,382 metres above sea level.

Geography

The mountain is located at the head of the Susa valley in Italy and the Maurienne valley in France and is on the border of the Italian comune of Bardonecchia to the south and the French commune of Bramans to the north.

With an elevation of 3,382 m, it is the second highest peak of the Northern Cottian Alps after the Aiguille de Scolette (3,506 m), edging out Mont d'Ambin to its east by four metres.

The SOIUSA partition of the Alps places Rognosa in the Ambin group of the northern Cottian Alps, in the Etiache ridge with code I/B-9.IV-A.2.a.^[4] According to the French partition of the Western Alps, the mountain is part of the Ambin group of the fr:Massif du Mont-Cenis.

Access to the summit

The mountain has a long summit ridge running NE to SW with three peaks, the Pt. NE (3,376 m) on the French border, and the Pt. SO (southwest; 3,382 m) and Torre Maria Celeste (3,342 m) on the Italian side.^[3] The SE face of the ridge is 300 m high and is pretty much vertical. It was first scaled in 1929 and offers multiple hard climbing routes.^[3] The easiest route to the summit starts from Rifugio Scarfiotti (a CAI mountain hut) and follows the WNW face. It requires some climbing skills.^[5]

Mountain huts

• Rifugio Scarfiotti (2,165  m).
• Refuge d'Ambin (2,270  m).

Maps

• Italian official cartography (Istituto Geografico Militare - IGM); on-line version: www.pcn.minambiente.it
• French official cartography (Institut Géographique National - IGN); on-line version: www.geoportail.fr
• I.G.C. (Istituto Geografico Centrale), Carta dei sentieri e dei rifugi 1:50.000 scale n. 1 Valli di Susa Chisone e Germanasca and 1:25.000 scale n. 104 Bardonecchia Monte Thabor Sauze d'Oulx

Notes

1. Geoportale IGM on www.pcn.minambiente.it
2. key col: Etiache pass (2,799  m)
3. Rognosa D' Etiache m. 3382 at AltoX.it
4. Marazzi, Sergio (2005). Atlante Orografico delle Alpi. SOIUSA (in Italian). Priuli & Verlucca. p. 90. ISBN 978-88-8068-273-8.
5. Aruga, Roberto; Pietro Losana; Alberto Re (1985). Alpi Cozie settentrionali. Guida ai monti d'Italia (in Italian). Club Alpino Italiano. pp. 308–309.