Monte Toc
| Monte Toc | ||
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 The catastrophic landslide on Monte Toc. The trailing edge on the mountainside is easy to see. |
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| height | 1921 m slm | |
| location | Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia , Italy | |
| Mountains | Belluno Alps | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 14 '19 " N , 12 ° 20' 17" E | |
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| particularities | Made famous by the Vajont disaster | |
The Monte Toc is a 1921 m slm high mountain in the Belluno Alps . He gained notoriety through the disaster of Vajont on October 9, 1963, when parts of the mountain fell in a landslide into the dammed Lago del Vajont and caused a tidal wave, which fell victim to Longarone and other surrounding villages. Around 2000 people died in the disaster.
The mountain is located east of the Piave Valley , a few kilometers southeast of Longarone. It is opposite the mountain village of Erto . South of Monte Toc flows the Vajont , which gave its name to the reservoir and (in Italian ) the catastrophe (in Italian strage del Vajont , disastro del Vajont or tragedia del Vajont ). The summit is on the border between the Veneto Region ( Belluno Province ) and the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region . Longarone belongs to the former, Erto e Casso to the latter.
The Dolomites high path number 6, also known as the Path of Silence , touches Monte Toc in the east and leads through the "oppressively narrow" valley of the Vajont river. There are hardly any alpine huts in the area, which makes it even more difficult to pass this section of the Dolomites High Trail. There are no marked paths leading up the mountain. A path leads up to about 1610 meters on the north side of the mountain and there turns into an unmarked mule track that extends to the summit. To the east of the summit, an initially marked, later unmarked route leads past.
literature
- Franz Hauleitner: Dolomiten-Höhenwege 4–7 (Rother hiking guide), Bergverlag Rother , Munich 2002, ISBN 3-7633-3369-X .
cards
Dolomiti di Sinistra Piave , 1: 25.000, Casa Editrice Tabacco, Udine , map 021.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Axel Bojanowski : When the mountain masses slipped into the lake. Der Standard , online edition, October 30, 2007, accessed August 4, 2013.
- ↑ Hauleitner: Dolomiten-Höhenwege 4–7 , pp. 139/140.