Bright white

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Bright white
High whites seen from the north

High whites seen from the north

height 3281  m slm
location South Tyrol , Italy
Mountains Texel Group , Ötztal Alps
Dominance 2.2 km →  Hochwilde
Notch height 386 m ↓  Eisjöchl
Coordinates 46 ° 44 '45 "  N , 11 ° 2' 14"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 44 '45 "  N , 11 ° 2' 14"  E
Hochweiß (South Tyrol)
Bright white
First ascent Victor Hecht , Rochus Raffeiner (1871)

The high-White (also high whiteness , high white or High whiteness , Italian Cima Bianca Grande ) is a 3281  m high mountain in the Texel group , a subgroup of the Oetztal Alps .

Location and surroundings

The Hochweiß is located in South Tyrol ( Italy ) near the state border with Austria . The communities of Partschins , Moos in Passeier and Schnals meet at their summit . The mountain is under protection in the Texel Group Nature Park .

The Hochweiß is a mighty mountain structure in the north of the Texel group. Towards the north, the Texel group drops from here over the Grafspitze ( 3147  m ) and the Schnalsberg ( 3004  m ) to the Eisjöchl ( 2895  m ), the transition from the Pfelderer Tal to the Pfossental , behind which the Ötztal main ridge with the Hochwilden ( 3480  m ) lies extends. To the south a ridge connects the Hochweiß with the Lodner ( 3228  m ). To the southwest are the Weißscharte, the Kleinweisse ( 3059  m ) and the Johannesscharte ( 2854  m ), the transition from the Pfossen valley to the target valley .

Alpinism

The first ascent of the Hochweiß took place in 1871 by Victor Hecht and Rochus Raffeiner. Today's normal route to the summit leads from Eisjöchl to the south over the Grafscharte between Schnalsberg and Grafspitze, then briefly down into the basin on the other side and then over the steep north flank to the summit.

Names

The name of the mountain is documented for the first time in the Atlas Tyrolensis , which was compiled from 1760 to around 1770, as Hochweis Spiz . Hoachwáis is common in the local dialects . The name presumably refers on the one hand to the fact that the Hochweße has firn all year round on its flanks, and on the other to the calcareous rock, which makes the summit appear noticeably brighter than other mountains in the Ötztal Alps.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Dumler: South Tyrol 2nd area guide for hikers and mountaineers through the mountain world of the southern Stubai Alps, the Texel Group and the Sarntal Alps . 1st edition. Bergverlag Rother, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-7633-3305-3 , p. 276 .
  2. ↑ Hohe Weisse. sentres.com, accessed May 17, 2013 .
  3. ^ Egon Kühebacher : The place names of South Tyrol and their history. The historically grown names of the mountain ranges, summit groups and individual peaks of South Tyrol. Athesia, Bozen 2000, ISBN 88-8266-018-4 , p. 120.
  4. ^ Hanspaul Menara , Josef Rampold : South Tyrolean mountain tours . Athesia, Bozen 1976, p. 42 .

Web links

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