Karlesspitze
| Karlesspitze | ||
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 The Karlesspitze from the northeast ( Hinterer Seelenkogel ) |
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| height | 3462 m above sea level A. | |
| location | Tyrol , Austria and South Tyrol , Italy | |
| Mountains | Ötztal Alps | |
| Dominance | 3.2 km → Schalfkogel | |
| Notch height | 192 m ↓ Kleinleitenjoch | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 46 ′ 21 ″ N , 10 ° 58 ′ 29 ″ E | |
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| First ascent | August 30, 1869 by Alfred Marshall, led by Blasius Grüner and Peter Paul Gstrein from Gurgl | |
The Karlesspitze ( Italian Cima di Quaira ), called in the Atlas Tyrolensis Grubspitze , is 3462 m above sea level. A. high mountain in the main ridge of the Ötztal Alps , which is called Schnalskamm here . It lies exactly on the state border between the Austrian state of Tyrol and the Italian province of South Tyrol . The mountain has a pointed cone shape with partial firn cover in the northwest and northeast. The southern flanks drop steeply into the Pfossental and are part of the Texel Group Nature Park . The summit was first climbed for tourists on August 30, 1869 by the English economist Alfred Marshall from Cambridge and the mountain guides Blasius Grüner and Peter Paul Gstrein from Gurgl .
Location and surroundings
The Karlesspitze is about nine kilometers as the crow flies northeast of Karthaus in Schnalstal and 12 kilometers south of Obergurgl , a district of the municipality of Sölden in Ötztal . Towards the south, the peak has a large geographic dominance due to its massive, steep, approximately 500-meter-high south face . Adjacent peaks are in the east, along the main ridge, the 3365-meter Falschunggspitze , in the West, separated by the at 3269 meters above sea level to the accumulation area of the Schalfferners preferred Karlesjoch which completely lying on the Italian territory Fanatspitze (3361 m). In the course of the north ridge , separated by the Querkogeljoch at 3346 meters, lies the 3448 meter high Querkogel . In the north and west, the Schalfferner glacier reaches just below the summit of the Karlesspitze. In the east lies the nutrient area of the Gurgler Ferners .
Bases and routes
Alfred Marshall, who spent his vacation in Tyrol in 1869, wanted to hike with the two mountain guides from Obergurgl on a new high-alpine path to Vent. Instead of over the Schalfkogel, their route therefore led over the Gurgler Ferner initially in a southerly direction to the connecting ridge from the Querkogel to the Karlesspitze, which you crossed. Marshall left his later found business card under stones on the summit, on which he had given details of their route. Today's normal route to the Karlesspitze, which is also the route of the first to climb, leads over the firn-covered north ridge as a high-altitude tour with appropriate equipment and knowledge. The location at 2,883 meters above sea level is used as a base Hochwildehaus . From the hut, the path leads south over the Gurgler Ferner to the Querkogeljoch , which is reached with a moderately difficult climb of difficulty UIAA II over rocks and boulders, then south over the exposed firn ridge to the summit in, according to literature, 4½ hours Walking time. The Karlesspitze can also be reached from the Martin-Busch-Hütte (2501 m) via the west ridge in six hours.
Literature and maps
- Walter Klier : Alpine Club Guide Ötztaler Alpen , Bergverlag Rudolf Rother, Munich 2006. ISBN 3-7633-1123-8
- Richard Goedeke : 3000er in the Northern Alps , Bruckmann, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7654-3930-4
- Alpine Club map, scale 1: 25,000, sheet 30/1, Gurgl , ISBN 3-928777-38-6
- Casa Editrice Tabacco , Tavagnacco: Carta Topografica 1: 25.000, sheet 04, Schnalstal / Val Senales, Naturns / Naturno
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heinrich Hess in Eduard Richter : The development of the Eastern Alps , Volume II, Berlin 1894, p. 358 f.
- ^ Walter Klier: Alpine Club Guide Ötztaler Alpen , Munich 2006, p. 373 f.