Fanatspitze

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Fanatspitze
height 3358  m above sea level A.
location south of the border between North and South Tyrol , Ötztal main ridge
Mountains Ötztal Alps
Coordinates 46 ° 46 '18 "  N , 10 ° 57' 47"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 46 '18 "  N , 10 ° 57' 47"  E
Fanatspitze (South Tyrol)
Fanatspitze
First ascent July 25, 1887 by Heinrich Heß and Ludwig Purtscheller during a hike over the Schnalskamm

The Fanatspitze ( Italian Punta Fanat ) is 3358  m above sea level. A. high mountain in the South Tyrolean part of the Ötztal Alps , only around 100 meters south of the border with Austria. It is part of the main ridge of the Ötztal Alps, which runs from west to east and is referred to here as the Schnals ridge . The top was first climbed on July 25, 1887 by Ludwig Purtscheller and Heinrich Heß as part of a hike over the Schnalskamm.

Location and surroundings

Adjacent mountains are in the west, separated by the Fanatjoch , the Rötenspitze with 3393 meters and in the east the Karlesspitze . To the north, below an ice wall that slopes down to the north, the Schalfferner glacier stretches . Like the entire surrounding area south of the state border, the Fanatspitze belongs to the Texel Group Nature Park . The closest villages are Karthaus in Schnalstal in the south and Obergurgl in the north .

Tourist development

The Martin-Busch-Hütte can serve as a base for an ascent , the normal route , also the route of the first climber from 1887, leads over the Schalfferner up to the Fanatjoch and over the west ridge to the summit. Another ascent is possible from the north-east from Karlesjoch (or Querkogel-Joch ), located at an altitude of 3346 meters.

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Individual evidence

  1. Heinrich Hess, Ludwig Purtscheller in: Mittheilungen des Deutschen und Oesterreichischen Alpenverein , born in 1887, Munich 1887, p. 242
  2. ^ Walter Klier : Alpine Club Guide Ötztal Alps . Bergverlag Rudolf Rother , Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7633-1123-8 , p. 386 f., Margin no. 3420 ff.

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