| Pizzo Tambò | |
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Northeastern view of Pizzo Tambò. |
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| Elevation | 3,279 m (10,758 ft) |
| Prominence | 1,164 m (3,819 ft) [1] |
| Parent peak | Piz Kesch |
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Pizzo Tambò
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| Range | Lepontine Alps |
| Climbing | |
| First ascent | July 1859, Johann Jacob Weilenmann |
Pizzo Tambo is a mountain located at the eastern extremity of the Lepontine Alps on the Swiss-Italian border. The mountain lies west of the Splügen Pass which divides the Western Alps from the Eastern Alps.
It is the highest peak in the Mesolcina sub-chain which, starting from the Luganese Prealps nrothwards, ends near the Splügen Pass on the boundary between Lombardy (northern Italy) and the Graubünden canton of Switzerland.
The Tambò is composed mostly of metamorphic rock such as gneiss, mica-schist and phyllite, with a small sector of dolostone just under the peak. It includes three small glaciers, the Tambogletscher and the Vedretta del Tambò on the Swiss side, and the larger Vedretta della Spianata (3,000-2,740 m) on the Italian one. Southwards the massif continues with a series of smaller peaks (the highest being the Pizzo Zoccone) before joining the Pizzo Ferrè.