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North Chain
The Nordkette, also variously called the North Chain, Northern Range, rarely the Inn Valley Range or Inn Valley Chain (''Inntalkette''), is a range of mountains just north of the city of Innsbruck in Austria. It is the southernmost of the four great mountain chains in the Karwendel. To the west it is linked by the Erl Saddle to the Erlspitze Group, to the east via the ''Stempeljoch'' saddle () to the Gleirsch-Halltal Range. To the south it is bounded by the Inn valley. Its highest summit is the Kleiner Solstein () in the west of the range. The Nordkette is served by the Nordkette Cable Car, which offers easy access to the ski area and the Innsbruck Klettersteig. The latter starts in the east, near ''Hafelekar'' station () on the Nordkette Cable Car, and runs via the Seegrubenspitze, the Kemacher and the ''Langen Sattel'' to Frau Hitt and the Frau Hitt Saddle in the west. In addition, the Goethe Way (''Goetheweg'') runs from Hafelekar Station along the arête eastwards to the Pfe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyrol (Bundesland)
Tyrol (; german: Tirol ; it, Tirolo) is a state (''Land'') in western Austria. It comprises the Austrian part of the historical Princely County of Tyrol. It is a constituent part of the present-day Euroregion Tyrol–South Tyrol–Trentino (together with South Tyrol and Trentino in Italy). The capital of Tyrol is Innsbruck. Geography The state of Tyrol is separated into two parts, divided by a strip. The larger territory is called North Tyrol (''Nordtirol'') and the smaller area is called East Tyrol (''Osttirol''). The neighbouring Austrian state of Salzburg stands to the east, while on the south Tyrol has a border with the Italian province of South Tyrol (Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol) which was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire before the First World War. With a land area of , Tyrol is the third-largest state in Austria. Tyrol shares its borders with the federal state of Salzburg in the east and Vorarlberg in the west. In the north, it adjoins to the German state of Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Climbing
Climbing is the activity of using one's hands, feet, or any other part of the body to ascend a steep topographical object that can range from the world's tallest mountains (e.g. the eight thousanders), to small boulders. Climbing is done for locomotion, sporting recreation, and for competition, and is also done in trades that rely on ascension; such as emergency rescue and military operations. Climbing is done indoors and outdoors and on natural (e.g. rock and ice) and artificial surfaces. Professional mountain guides or rock climbing guides (e.g. the UIAGM), were a significant element in developing the popularity of the sport in the natural environment, and remain so today. Since the 1980s, the development of competition climbing and the availability of artificial climbing walls have dramatically increased the popularity of rock climbing as a sport and led to the emergence of professional rock climbers, such as Wolfgang Güllich, Chris Sharma, Lynn Hill and Catherine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hafelekarspitze
The Hafelekarspitze is a mountain in the so-called North Chain (''Nordkette'') north of Innsbruck in Austria. Location and landscape Below and west of the summit is the top station of ''Hafelekar'', the second section of the Nordkette Cable Car at a height of , from where the Hafelekarspitze may be reached in a few minutes by foot on a metalled path. Not far from there is the Hafelekar Survey Station, a cosmic radiation observatory of the University of Innsbruck, the only one of its kind in Austria. It was here in 1937 that physicists Marietta Blau and Hertha Wambacher using Nuclear emulsion plates, made the first ever observation of nuclear disintegration 'stars' (Zertrümmerungsterne) caused by cosmic rays striking nuclei in the emulsion.Marietta Blau and Hertha Wambacher: ''Disintegration Processes by Cosmic Rays with the Simultaneou Emission of Several Heavy Particles'', Nature 140: 585 (1937). File:Gipfelkreuz Hafelekar.JPG, Summit cross on the Hafelekarspitze File:Bergs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kemacher
Kemacher is a summit of the Nordkette (North Chain) range in the Austrian state of Tyrol Tyrol (; historically the Tyrole; de-AT, Tirol ; it, Tirolo) is a historical region in the Alps - in Northern Italy and western Austria. The area was historically the core of the County of Tyrol, part of the Holy Roman Empire, Austrian Emp .... Climbing The Kemacher is the highest peak of the Innsbruck Via Ferrata and is typically reached from the top station of the Innsbruck Nordkettenbahn (North Chain Cable Car) at the Hafelekar in about 2.5 hours. References Mountains of the Alps Two-thousanders of Austria Mountains of Tyrol (state) {{Tyrol-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vordere Brandjochspitze
The Vordere Brandjochspitze is a peak, high, in the Nordkette in the Karwendel range and is one of its highest and most striking peaks. In its immediate vicinity to the north-northwest is its sister summit, the Hintere Brandjochspitze, which is about 40 metres higher. To the south a prominent arête runs over to the ''Brandjochkreuz'' () and the ''Achselkopf'' () and down to the Innsbruck quarter of Hötting. To the east, the main ridge of the Nordkette runs over to Frau Hitt. Ascents The easiest ascent, the Julius Pock Way, runs from the Frau Hitt Saddle (), which may be reached on various routes from Innsbruck or Scharnitz Scharnitz is a municipality in the district of Innsbruck-Land in the Austrian state of Tyrol located north of Innsbruck and from Seefeld in Tirol on the German border. It is one of the largest municipalities and has 10 parts: Au, Eisack, Gieße ... through the ''Gleirschtal'' and ''Kleinkristental'' valleys, up to the summit on a UIAA grade I, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hintere Brandjochspitze
The Hintere Brandjochspitze () is a summit roughly 200 metres northwest of the Vordere Brandjochspitze in the Nordkette range above Innsbruck. It rises above its "forward" neighbour by around 40 metres. The summit may be reached in 20 minutes from the Vordere Brandjochspitze at climbing grade UIAA I through a gully left of the arête An arête ( ) is a narrow ridge of rock which separates two valleys. It is typically formed when two glaciers erode parallel U-shaped valleys. Arêtes can also form when two glacial cirques erode headwards towards one another, although frequen .... A more difficult route runs along the western arête (grade III-) from the Hohe Warte. Other routes along the northern ''Hippengrat'' ( UIAA IV) from the ''Hippenspitze'' (2,388 m) and from the northwest ( UIAA IV) are rarely used. Literature * (Hippengrat, northwest route) * (normal route, west arête) {{authority control Two-thousanders of Austria Karwendel Mountai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hohe Warte (Karwendel)
The Hohe Warte is a mountain, Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen Österreich: Austrian Map online (Österreichische Karte 1:50,000)'. Retrieved 13 February 2012. in height, in the Karwendel range in Austria. It is located between the Kleiner Solstein to the west and the Hintere Brandjochspitze to the east, in the Nordkette in the state of Tyrol, north of the Innsbruck quarter of Kranebitten and has a prominence of at least 77 metres. Access The Hohe Warte was first climbed in 1870 by Hermann von Barth. The present normal route to the top runs from the Aspach Hut () above Innsbruck and poses no great difficulties. It runs through ''schrofen'' terrain up to the Gamswart Saddle, then for a short way along the western ridge to the summit. Another ascent runs up the south ridge and has a climbing grade of UIAA IV. Crossings to the Kleiner Solstein and Hintere Brandjochspitze are possible at grade III-.Walter Klier: ''Alpenvereinsführer alpin, Karwendel, pp. 142 f, Rz 730 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Großer Solstein
The Große Solstein is a mountain, high, on the western corner of the Nordkette range in the Karwendel mountains near Zirl in the Austrian state of Tyrol. Its summit may be ascended on various mountain tour routes either from the Solsteinhaus or from the New Magdeburg Hut. These routes are described as not difficult but require stamina. The crossing to the higher peak of the Kleiner Solstein The Kleiner Solstein is a mountain, high, in the Nordkette in the Karwendel Alps in the Austrian state of Tyrol. Despite its name ("Small Solstein") it towers above its western neighbour, the Großer Solstein ("Great Solstein") () by almost a ... (), despite its name the highest in the Nordkette, is described in that article. Literature * External links * Tour description {{DEFAULTSORT:Solstein, Grosser Two-thousanders of Austria Karwendel Mountains of Tyrol (state) Mountains of the Alps Innsbruck ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
