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Shadow tip
Schattenspitze from the southeast, from the ascent to the Grüner Kuppe

Schattenspitze from the southeast, from the ascent to the Grüner Kuppe

height 3202  m above sea level A.
location Vorarlberg , Austria
Mountains Silvretta
Dominance 0.35 km →  snow bell
Notch height 130 m ↓ shadow gap 
Coordinates 46 ° 52 '3 "  N , 10 ° 5' 14"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 52 '3 "  N , 10 ° 5' 14"  E
Schattenspitze (Vorarlberg)
Shadow tip
Normal way from the shadow gap between the snow bell and the shadow peak over the south ridge
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The Schattenspitze is a 3,202 meter high mountain in the Silvretta mountain range in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg . The Wiesbadener Hut to the east at an altitude of 2,443 meters is suitable as a base for an ascent .

Location and surroundings

The Schattenspitze is located in a mountain ridge that stretches from the Kleine Schattenspitze (2703 m) to the north via the Kleine Egghorn (2730 and 2872 m), the Klostertaler Egghorn at 3120 meters, the Schattenkopf (approx. 3120 m) to the Schattenspitze and further on over the 3223 m high snow bell , the 3190 m high knot and the Silvrettahorn (3244 m), where the state border with Switzerland is reached. The ridge continues through the Egghornlücke, the Silvretta Egghorn (3147 m), the Signalhorn with 3210 meters, the Fuorcla dal Cunfin (3043 m), and finally ends in the south with the 3255 meter high Little Piz Buin , a secondary peak of the Piz Buin .

In the north of the Schattenspitze lies the Schattenspitz Glacier , in the southeast the Schneeglockengletscher and in the west the Klostertal Glacier extends . Neighboring mountains are the Schattenkopf and the Klostertaler Egghorn in the northwest and the Snow Bell in the south, separated by the shadow gap . The closest settlement is Partenen in Montafon, just under 12 kilometers to the north as the crow flies .

Development

There is no information in the known literature about the first ascent of the Schattenspitze in the 19th century, but Karl Blodig describes his ascent on July 16, 1912 in the magazine of the German and Austrian Alpine Club Alpinist Edward Theodore Compton . You set out from the Wiesbadener hut and needed a good four hours for the ascent on the so-called Blodig route . They walked from the hut first in a southerly direction and then west over the Ochsentaler Glacier to what Blodig called the shadow gap north of the Silvrettahorn .

Today this route is the normal route and leads as an alpine tour over a gully to the summit; The Großerl route leads over the south ridge . In 1920 Otto Bauriedl was the first to climb the southern edge of the Schattenspitze alone.

Literature and maps

Web links

Commons : Schattenspitze  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Blodig: From the Silvretta group. in the magazine of the German and Austrian Alpine Club. Volume XLV, Vienna 1914, p. 289 ff.
  2. ↑ Walther Flaig: Alpine Club Guide Silvretta. Munich 1996, paragraphs 472 and 474.
  3. ^ Notices from the German Alpine Club. Born in 1961, p. 129 f.