Jezerca
| Jezerca | ||
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_sa_Karanfila_(2480).jpg) Maja Jezerce in the background |
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| height | 2694 m | |
| location | Albania | |
| Mountains | North Albanian Alps | |
| Dominance | 94.3 km → Korab | |
| Notch height | 2036 m | |
| Coordinates | 42 ° 26 '30 " N , 19 ° 48' 45" E | |
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| rock | dolomite | |
| First ascent | 1929 by Italian surveyors | |
| Normal way | From the north over the northeast ridge, from the south over the west ridge to the summit | |
| particularities | Highest mountain of the Dinarides | |
 Summit from the north |
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 Jezerca mountain range (bottom right) with surrounding mountains |
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The Jezerca ( Albanian Maja e Jezercës ; Serbian Језерски Врх Jezerski Vrh ) is 2694 m above sea level. A. than the highest completely in Albania located mountain and is the highest peak of the northern Albanian Alps . The Korab on the border with North Macedonia is the highest mountain in Albania.
Location and surroundings
The mountain peak, which is only about five kilometers from the border with Montenegro , lies between the valleys of the Valbona in the east and the Shala in the west. The entire floor between the valleys of Shala, Valbona and Ropojana as well as the Maja Roshit ( 2522 m above sea level ) is called the Jezerca massif , which in addition to the Jezerca peak also has elevations like the Maja Popluks ( 2569 m above sea level). ) and the Maja e Alisë ( 2471 m above sea level ) in the west, the Maja Rrogamit ( 2478 m above sea level ) in the east, the Maja Kolajet ( 2498 m above sea level ), the Maja Malësores ( 2490 m above sea level) . A. ) and the Maja Bojës ( 2461 m above sea level ) in the northwest as well as the Maja e Kokerhanës ( 2508 m above sea level ) and the Maja Etheve ( 2393 m above sea level ) in the north.
Because of the high mountains and the ridge that surrounds the Jezerca, it can hardly be seen from the valley and only from a few elevated points outside the mountain range.
The mountain can be climbed from the north or west with little climbing. The Jezerca is usually climbed from the Montenegrin Gusinje or from Theth in the Shala Valley via the Qafa e Pejës .
Apart from certain areas north of the Jezerza peak, the mountain block is part of the two national parks of Theth and Valbona .
Topology and geography
The Jezerca is a large rocky peak made of dolomitic limestone . There is almost no vegetation on it. To the north, east and west of the peak, the mountain falls into large cirques that were formed by glaciers during the ice ages . Today there is an active glacier around 400 meters long in the northern Kar Buni i Jezercës at an altitude between 1980 meters and 2100 meters and two even smaller active glaciers in the eastern Kar Llugu i Zajavë . In winter a lot of snow falls, which only melts away in less exposed places in very dry years.
Surname
The name Jezerski Vrh means lake peak . The origin of this Serbian name is likely to come from some cirque lakes in the lower part of the Kars Buni i Jezercës between the mountain and the border. The Jezerca was also given the name Maja e Rinisë ( Mountain of Youth ) by the communists of Albania, but it never caught on abroad.
In older travel reports the name Pupluks and Jezerca Pupluks can be found . On today's maps Maja Popluks is a mountain peak in the Jezerca massif one and a half kilometers southwest, which obscures the view of the Jezerca from the valley.
Ascent history
The first documented ascent took place on July 26, 1929 by the British mountaineers Cyril Montague Sleeman (* 1883, † 1971), WT Elmslie and LA Ellwood. Sleeman himself writes that they weren't the first people to climb the summit.
"We got to the top at 8.45. Arrived there we found a recently built cairn - no doubt made by the Italian survey party we had been told about in Thethi. "
“We reached the summit at 8:45 am. When we arrived there we found a recently built stone man - no doubt created by the Italian surveyor group about which we were told in Theth. "
While some authors claimed that their descriptions should not have made it clear which mountain in the Jezerca massif they had climbed, for others it is clear from directions and a photo that the English had reached the summit.
The Italian surveyors had mapped the area in 1929 and climbed many high peaks and erected cairns on them for surveying purposes . There were probably many first ascents, but these were not further documented.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Summipost: Jezerca. Retrieved August 2, 2009 .
- ↑ Florian Baba (editor): Linja e Gjelbër Shqiptare , Tirana 2008
- ↑ Milovan Milivojevića, Ljubomir Menkovića and Jelena Ćalić: Pleistocene glacial relief of the central part of Mt. Prokletije (Albanian Alps), in: Quaternary International, V. 190, 1, November 1, 2008, pp. 112–122, doi : 10.1016 / j.quaint.2008.04.006
- ^ A b c Cyril Montague Sleeman: The Mountains of Albania . In: Alpine Club (Ed.): The Alpine Journal . Volume 42, No. 240 . London May 1930, p. 55-69 .
- ↑ a b Bernhard Bauer, Ludwig Obersteiner, Rolf Richer: To the development of the North Albanian Alps . Yearbook. In: Journal of the German and Austrian Alpine Association . tape 67 . Publishing house of the German and Austrian Alpine Club, Stuttgart 1936, p. 216-229 .
- ^ Names and dates of life according to AM Binnie: Cyril Montague Sleeman 1883-1971 . In: The Alpine Club (Ed.): Alpine Journal . Vol. 78. London 1973, pp. 290 f . ( Article online (PDF; 7.5 MB) [accessed on March 29, 2013]).
- ↑ a b Tone Wraber: Planinec botanik na Maji e Jezercës. (No longer available online.) In: Planinski vestnik. Planinska zveza Slovenije, 2000, formerly in the original ; accessed on March 29, 2013 : “Kaj pa o tem prvem vzponu piše Sleeman (33)? Leta 1929 so se v albanske Prokletije odpravili on, WT Elmslie in LA Ellwood. Iz Skadra so odšli v Bogo in čez škrbino Shtegu e Dhenvet v dolino Thethi, iz nje pa čez sedlo Qafa e Pejës na ovčjo planino na ravnici Fusha e Rudnicës, s katere so četrti dan (July 26, 1929) poh. Doseg izli gore. To v članku sicer imenujejo Popluks, a je že po dokaj natančnem opisu poti s planine na vrh in odlični fotografiji povsem jasno, da so bili prav na Jezerskem vrhu. Toda na vrhu so našli pred kratkim zložen možic ("Arrived there we found a recently built cairn"), ki so ga nedvomno postavili italijanski zemljemerci, za katere so že v Thethiju izvedeli, da so nekaj tednov poprej hodili poorah in skoraj vseh zložili možice. "