Scrambling/climbing, Monte Viso,
3841 m

Monte Viso was for a long time in the past regarded to be the highest mountain in the Alps. If you see the mountain from the Turin/Saluzzo perspective you don't have to be thoughtful about those ideas. The mountain is high, and very beautiful.
The scrambling is continuously hard, with some passages that could be regarded as climbing. Though never harder than 3+.

A mountain like Monte Viso has of course several routes, from North, East, West and South. We present the easy one, a scrambling /climbing approach from the South side, in guide books regarded to be a PD-. Hard scrambling or easy climbing alternately climbing / steep hiking. You meet moves hard as 3+ but only on sloops not higher than 3-4 meters. However, the approach is very steep, starting at a point from the bivouac Andreotti at 3227 m to the summit at 3841 m and you need to be in good shape. Because of the high altitude nights and mornings are in general cold, even in the summer.
Visitors in general use two days for the ascent. The first afternoon with the walk from Pian del Re to the hut Q.Sella. Then early next day start the harder part to ascend the summit of Monte Viso.
From the summit you will, if you arrive the right day, have a view over many of the summits in the Alps, including summits as Argentera, Mont Blanc, Dente del Gigante, Grandes Jorasses, Matterhorn, and Monte Rosa.
In the Topos you will find all necessary information for the ascent, as pictures, information and detailed maps.