Ľadový štít (translated into English as ''Ice Peak''; hu, Jég-völgyi-csúcs, literally, Ice Valley Peak) is the third highest of the
Tatra Mountains, in
Slovakia
Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...
, and in the whole long
Carpathian
The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians () are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe. Roughly long, it is the third-longest European mountain range after the Urals at and the Scandinavian Mountains at . The range stretches ...
mountain chain, as well as in northern and eastern Central Europe.
History
The first confirmed ascent was made by 1843
John Ball, Wilhelm Richter,
Carl Ritter
Carl Ritter (August 7, 1779September 28, 1859) was a German geographer. Along with Alexander von Humboldt, he is considered one of the founders of modern geography. From 1825 until his death, he occupied the first chair in geography at the Univer ...
, a Polish philologist, a Hungarian landscape painter and three Polish mountain guides.
[Wilhelm Richter, ''Wanderungen in Ungarn und unter seinen Bewohnern'', 1844]
pp.419-420
/ref> In 1843, the first ascent was recorded, via Suchý žlab (Dry Couloir).
Mounteineering
The most popular climbing routes:
Normal route. As first men on the top. Scale UIAA I.
Ľadový koň (Ice ridge). North ridge from Tery hut to Ľadová priehyba (Ice pass) and on the top. Scale UIAA II.
Grósz route. The left side of southeast wall. Scale UIAA III.
Brnčal pillar. The central southeast wall. Scale UIAA IV.
References
External links
List of climbing routes od Ľadový štít
(Slovak language)
(Czech language)
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Mountains of Slovakia
Tatra Mountains
Mountains of the Western Carpathians
Two-thousanders of Slovakia
Spiš
Cirques of Europe
High Tatras