Weißseespitze
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| height | 3498 m above sea level A. | |
| location | Tyrol , Austria and South Tyrol , Italy | |
| Mountains | Ötztal Alps | |
| Dominance | 5.07 km → Langtauferer Spitze | |
| Notch height | 330 m ↓ Gepatschferner | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 50 '48 " N , 10 ° 43' 1" E | |
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| First ascent | 1870 by Franz Senn , V. v. Mayrl. J. Wanderer with guide I. Schöpf | |
| Normal way | from the north and over the west ridge ( I ) | |
The Weißseespitze is a 3498 m above sea level. A. high mountain in the Ötztal Alps on the border between Tyrol and South Tyrol . The mountain is at the western end of the Gepatschferner . The summit slope, which rises relatively gently here, can be reached as an easy high-altitude tour over glaciers from the Brandenburger Haus . The only glacier-free ascent leads from the Weißkugelhütte in the Langtaufer valley from the south to the Falginjoch and over the west ridge to the summit. To the north, the Weißseespitze breaks off with a 500 m high firn wall to the Weißseeferner and forms the head of the Kaunertal . To the south lie two smaller glacier remains , the Milanzer Ferner and the Falginferner . Since the construction of the Kaunertal Glacier Road, the shortest ascent from the end of the road leads over the Weißseeferner to the Falginjoch and the West Ridge to the summit.
Mass movements on the north flank
In 1997 several large crevasses opened in the summit area of the Weißseespitze, in which the summit cross sank. These processes are based on mass movements in the paragneiss of the north flank, which also affects the overlying glacier. Overall, the slope movement is estimated at around 5 million m³ of rock and ice, which slid down into the valley at up to 1.2 meters per day. The process can be traced back to the melting of the stabilizing ice cover and the rise of the permafrost limit in higher regions. In this respect, the slope movements of the Weißseespitze are a continuation of processes that began in earlier warm periods. Since the landslides fell well below 10 cm per day in the winter months, winter skiing operations could be maintained below the northern flank of the Weißseespitze. By the year 2000 the slope movement had largely slowed down. The landslides also have an impact on the summit height of the mountain. The Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying gives a height of 3498 m for the Weißseespitze after 3526 m above sea level. A. at.
Tourist development
The operators of the glacier ski area in the Kaunertal, the Kaunertaler Gletscherbahnen, plan to extend the ski area to the summit of the Weißseespitze with lifts. On May 12, 2004, the Tyrolean provincial government passed an amendment to the Tyrolean Nature Conservation Act, which until then prevented new developments such as the one in the Kaunertal, thus opening up the possibility of expansion. The justification for the amendment is the need to economically strengthen regions that are underdeveloped and at risk of emigration.
The Austrian Alpine Association criticizes the planned expansion and counters the argument of the Tyrolean provincial government that neither the Kaunertal nor the Pitztal , in which expansions in glacier regions are also planned, are regions with poor development. The OeAV also fears that the amendment will enable further, not yet foreseeable developments in the previously protected high mountains. A representative survey in Austria commissioned by the Alpine Association showed that the majority of the population is also against further development of the glaciers.
literature
- Hanspaul Menara : The most beautiful 3000m peaks in South Tyrol. 70 worthwhile alpine tours. Athesia, Bozen 2014, ISBN 978-88-8266-911-9
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Austrian Map online 1: 50,000 (ÖK 50) of the BEV
- ^ Gunther Heißel: Tyrol, the land of the mountains in motion - mass movements in Tyrol , lecture from October 15, 1999 at the Geoforum Umhausen
- ^ Gunther Heißel, Christian Weber: The mass movements at the Weißseespitze in the years 1996-1999 in the Kaunertal / Tyrol glacier ski area
- ^ Walter Klier : Alpine Club Guide Ötztal Alps . Bergverlag Rudolf Rother. Munich 1993. ISBN 3-7633-1116-5
- ↑ Expansion plans for the Kaunertaler Gletscherbahnen ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Glacier protection ( Memento from February 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.br-online.de/umwelt-gesundheit/artikel/0405/15-gletscher/index.xml ( Memento from 23 August 2004 in the Internet Archive )