Tatra tip
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| height | 2547 m | |
| location | Slovakia | |
| Mountains | High Tatras | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 10 '22 " N , 20 ° 5' 40" E | |
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The Tatra peak (also: High Viszoka , Slovak Vysoká , Polish Wysoka , Hungarian Tátra-csúcs ) is one of the highest mountains in the Slovak High Tatras . The symmetrical peak is impressive from every side and is one of the most beautiful and most photographed peaks of the High Tatras.
geography
The Tatra peak forms together the Déchy peak ( Dračí štít ) and the Martin-Róth peak ( Český štít ) a mountain range in the main ridge of the High Tatras. The Tatra tip forms a knot from which a short ridge branches off to the Déchy tip and the Drachenwand. The Tatra peak is located between the Great Ganek ( Gánok ), the Rumanscharte ( Rumanovo sedlo ) and the Martin-Róth peak. Below the Tatra peak lies the Dragon Valley ( Dračia dolinka ) in the west and the Rumantälchen ( Rumanova dolinka ) in the south and south-east .
Surname
The first written evidence of the name is "Visoka" after Georg Buchholz the Elder. J. to be found at the end of the 17th century. In the course of the Magyarization the name Tátra-csúcs and from it the German name arose . To distinguish it from the Little Viszoka ( Východná Vysoká ), the Tatra peak is also called "High Viszoka" or "Veľká Vysoká".
Ascent
The first known ascent is described in the records of the Hungarian Carpathian Society. On September 3, 1874 Moritz von Déchy and the leaders Martin Spitzkopf-Urban and Ján Ruman-Driečný d. J. (* ~ 1840, † 1879) to the ascent, which was under the guidance of Moritz von Déchy. Ruman didn't really want to go. Spitzkopf resisted joining a common rope because, as he said, he “didn't want to die with the other two”. Eventually they joined Déchy and conquered the summit together.
swell
- Ernst Hochberger: High Tatras - Mountains of Northern Slovakia, Sinn / Hessen 1992, Vol. 2/2, p. 301ff, ISBN 3-921888-06-9
- Anton Klipp: The High Tatras and the Carpathian Association, Karlsruhe 2006, p. 135, ISBN 3-927020-12-5