Parrotspitze, Summit in Monte Rosa Massif, Switzerland

Pointe Parrot is a summit in the Monte Rosa Massif that rises to 4,432 meters (14,537 feet) in the Pennine Alps. It sits among other high peaks within this vast mountain range in the Swiss-Italian border region.

Named after Friedrich Parrot, who explored the Monte Rosa massif from 1814 to 1816, the peak was first attempted on 8 July 1862, when Hereford Brooke George and the brothers George and Adolphus Warburton Moore with guides Christian Almer and Matthias Zumtaugwald reached the east-wall ridge just below the top and turned back. On 16 August 1863 guides Melchior Anderegg and Peter Perren led Reginald S. Macdonald, Florence Crauford Grove, Montagu Woodmass and William Edward Hall to the summit by the west ridge, now the normal route.

The mountain carries the name of Johann Jakob Friedrich Wilhelm Parrot, a German physician who made early attempts to explore the Monte Rosa region.

The normal route follows the first ascensionists' west ridge, starting from the Gnifetti Hut (3,647 m) in Italy, reached via the Rifugio Città di Mantova. From there it is about 2.5 hours to the Piodejoch (4,283 m) near the Ludwigshöhe, then 30 minutes northeast to the ridge, which steepens to 40 degrees. In winter and spring this is the usual ski ascent; from the Swiss side the ridge is reached from the Monte Rosa Hut (2,795 m) over the Grenzgletscher, though it is climbed less often.

The two flanks differ sharply: the north side, in Switzerland, is gentle and entirely snow-covered and feeds the Grenzgletscher, while the south side drops over 1,800 metres into the Valsesia as a steep rock wall. Long, hard routes have been opened on this Valsesian face.