Alpa wall

The Alpawand ( 1671 m above sea level ) is the highest rock face on the northwest side of the Reiter Alpe with a wall height of over 600 m . It is located in the municipality of Unken in the Austrian state of Salzburg .

It is particularly interesting for climbers, the summit itself is an inconspicuous mountain pine hump in the extension of the Großer Häuselhorn . The Alpawand was (occasionally is erroneously called 1949) on 23 and 24 September 1951 in 18 hours climbing time with a bivouac in the wall by the Austrian mountaineers Toni Dürnberger , Sepp Schmiderer and Hans Herbst first climbed .

In the central part of the wall there are some classic alpine climbing routes that are rarely climbed. In the left part of the wall, some very rewarding alpine sport climbing routes have been created since 2002 , which quickly became popular. The first and most famous of these routes is the Water Symphony.

Web links

Climbing on the alpine wall , information and topos about the climbing routes

Individual evidence

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↑ Christine Klenovec, Christine Haitzmann: Alpine history in a nutshell - Weissbach near Lofer. Published by the Austrian Alpine Association, Innsbruck 2014, p. 40 ( PDF ).
↑ The north face of the Alpa has been conquered! - Three young Salzburg mountaineers achieved a great alpine feat. In: Salzburger Nachrichten , September 26, 1951, p. 5.

47.61559 12.76302 1671Coordinates: 47 ° 37 ' N , 12 ° 46' E

[1] Christine Klenovec, Christine Haitzmann: Alpine history in a nutshell - Weissbach near Lofer. Published by the Austrian Alpine Association, Innsbruck 2014, p. 40 ( PDF ).

[2] The north face of the Alpa has been conquered! - Three young Salzburg mountaineers achieved a great alpine feat. In: Salzburger Nachrichten , September 26, 1951, p. 5.