Maladeta

Maladeta
Maladeta
Elevation	3,312 m (10,866 ft)
Listing	List of mountains in Aragon
Translation	from "damned mountains" (Spanish)
Location
Maladeta Location in the Pyrenees
Location	Ribagorza,  Aragon
Range	Pyrenees
Coordinates	42°38′50″N 0°38′22″E / 42.64722°N 0.63944°E / 42.64722; 0.63944Coordinates: 42°38′50″N 0°38′22″E / 42.64722°N 0.63944°E / 42.64722; 0.63944
Climbing
First ascent	28 September 1817

Maladeta (3,312 m) is a mountain in the Pyrenees, close to the highest peak in the range, Aneto, Aragon, Spain. Its name comes from the Spanish montes malditos which means "Damned Mountains". According to some authorities the local name for the massif was Mala hita ("bad rocks" or "bad upper regions"). When French travellers came to the region they translated the name into the French "Maladette", on the basis that it was cognate with the Italian term Maladetta (feminine for "damned"). Subsequenty the mountain became known as Maladeta, a term which encompasses the entire massif.^[1]

The first ascent of the peak was made by the German naturalist Johann Jacob Friedrich Wilhelm Parrot with guide Pierre Barrau on 28 September 1817.^[1]

See also

• List of Pyrenean three-thousanders

References

1. ^ ^{a b} The Maladeta Massif, summitpost.org, accessed 22 January 2010