View of the Piz Palù range.

Piz Palù is one of the most famous mountains in the Bernina Group. Its fame is due to its imposing, majestic, snow and glacier-clad massif and to its appearance centre stage in numerous films. Piz Palù actually has three different summits: the western peak (3,823 m), the central or main peak, which is the highest (3,906 m), and the eastern peak (3,881 m).

Great Ascents

• Central Pizzo Palù 3,906 m Central south and west variant “Via Italiana” Damiano Marinelli, H. Grass and J. Grass 19 August 1880
• Western Pizzo Palù 3,823 m North-west wall “Via Corti” Plinio and Nello Corti with Isacco dell’Avo 2 August 1939