Adamello-Presanella

The solid mass of Adamello-Presanella is a solid mass of the Eastern Préalpes Southerners. It rises in Italy (between the Trentin-Haut-Adige and the Lombardy).

The Cima Presanella is the culminating point of the solid mass. The Monte Adamello is the second plus high summit.

The solid mass shelters important glaciers.

Geography

Situation

The solid mass is surrounded of the the Alps bergamasks in the west, of the solid mass of Sobretta-Gavia in the North-West, of the Massif of Ortles in north, the Massif of Brenta and the Montagnes around Lake Garda in the east.

It is bordered by the Oglio (Val Camonica) in the west.

Principal Summits

Cima Presanella, 3558 m
Assembles Adamello, 3554 m
Carè Alto, 3462 m
Dosson di Genova, 3430 m
Monte Fumo, 3418 m
Corno Miller, 3373 m
Crozzon di Lares, 3354 m
Corno Baitone, 3331 m
Monte Mandrone, 3281 m
Cima Busazza, 3225 m
Lobbia Alta, 3196 m
Cima Plem, 3182 m
Cima Palù, 3013 m

Geology

The solid mass is located at the south of the Faille between the Eurasian plate and the Adriatic plate. This fault passes by the Col of Tonal the.

The Eastern slope of the solid mass, on the territory of Trentin, originates in a volcanic intrusion of magmatic Roche dating from the Tertiaire, being composed of Granite and Diorite mixed with quartz, called adamellogranite or Tonalite.

The area of Adamello-Presanella is regarded as being vastest in plutonic Roche of the Alps.

Glaciology

The Eastern slope is covered with glaciers. The field of Névé S of Mandrone (3283 m) is the second more important glacier of Italy and an important area operating for the Glaciologie.

For a few decades, the glaciers of Adamello-Presanella have crossed a phase of withdrawal, because of the rise of the temperatures the summer (during the Canicule of 2003, from many Eternal snow disappeared for the first time from memory from man) and especially of the weakest snow drift during the autumn and the winter due to the progressive reduction in precipitations, phenomenon striking the whole of the Alps in general.

History

First World War

Many traces of the First World War are still visible in the surroundings of the solid mass. The face of the Dolomites was fixed there of 1915 at 1917 between the Austria-Hungary and the Italy. The climatic conditions were extremely rigorous. Many were the victims of the two parts to perish of the cold, the crumblings or other accidents.

The fortifications were saved of their slow degradation and were integrated into the way of peace which extends on hundreds from kilometers. Today this late project of reconciliation between north and the south is integrated with a popular aim by the tourists and the mountaineers in the network of the hiking trails.

Visits of the Pope

The mountain was one of great passions of the Pope Jean-Paul II, and the glaciers of Adamello were one of its preferred destinations when its age and its conditions of health still allowed him.

He went there several times, to begin with the stay of the 16 - July 17th 1984 during which the famous meeting arrived then with the President of the Italian Republic, Sandro Pertini. Then it returned in 1988 with an aim of blessing the granite furnace bridge drawn up in its honor in Cresta Croce (3307 m). A little low, a top where one finds a gun survivor of the " war blanche" in 1999 Cima Giovanni Paolo II was renamed.

The Polish pope had a last possibility of returning on these mountains the July 18th 1998 when, at the time of his visit with Borno, native soil of his friend the Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, it could fly over in the helicopter the glaciers and the tops of Adamello.

Activities

Winter sports resorts

Environment

The solid mass is covered by two natural reserves: the regional park of Adamello (510 km ², created in 1983) in the west and the natural park of Adamello-Brenta (620 km ², created in 1967) in the east.

Geography of the Eastern Alps

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