The Dufourspitze is the highest mountain peak in the Swiss Alps. The peak belongs to the Monte Rosa massif, which has ten 4000-metre peaks, depending on how you count them. The Dufourspitze reaches an altitude of 4634 m. Until the 1940s, the name "Gornerhorn" or "Höchste Spitze" was commonly used for the Dufourspitze. The name was again given by the Austrian general and topographer Ludwig von Welden. Due to General Dufour's achievements in cartography, the Federal Council decided in 1863 to change the name to Dufourspitze at the request of important alpinists and SAC members. The first ascent took place on 1 August 1855 by a rope team led by Charles Hudson. Hudson was one of the first climbers of the Matterhorn in 1865 and had a fatal accident there. Other participants in the rope team to the Dufourspitze were John Birkbeck, Edward J.W. Stephenson and the brothers Christopher and James G. Smyth.
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