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for "peak 12", in
Cimbrian language ''Freyjoch'') is a mountain on the border of
Vicenza
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Trentino
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Trentino Alto Adige, northern Italy, south of the village of
Borgo Valsugana
Borgo Valsugana (''El Bórgo'' in local dialect) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in Trentino in the northern Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located about east of Trento.
Borgo Valsugana borders the following municipalities: Telve, ...
. It has an elevation of 2,336 metres.
[ and is the highest peak in Vicenza. At 1,874 m ]prominence
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, it is an ultra prominent peak
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The prominence of a peak is the minimum height of climb to the summit on any route from a higher peak, or fr ...
. The key col is near the village of Pergine Valsugana
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Climbing
The most direct access to the summit is from the valley of Galmarara, on the left hand side of the Val d'Assa. From the crossroads of the Galmarara hut (1614 m, reachable by car) the route continues via two old Austrian military roads, the Zoviellostraße (or, alternatively, the path 830) and the Kaiser Karl Straße. Just beyond the Bivio Italy (1987 m), a path leads to the summit.
The climb from Val di Sella is more difficult as it begins lower down the mountain. It goes via trail 211 which, starting from the road of Dosso, goes directly to the summit through the valley of the Twelve and the valley of the Trap. Alternatively, for the trail marked 231, which is detached from the former, it is a gradual climb up the valley of the Twelve to join up with the other path near the Busa Dodese bivouac.
From the summit the view sweeps over the eastern Alps, including the Brenta Dolomites, over to Pale di San Martino The Pala group (also known as Pale di San Martino) is the largest massif of the Dolomites, with about 240 km² of surface, located between eastern Trentino and Veneto (province of Belluno), in the area between Primiero (valleys of Cismon, Canali, ...
. The Adriatic Sea
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and The Apennines are visible to the south on a clear day.
On the top lie two summit crosses. The first, made from wood, was erected in 1946 to replace an earlier cross laid in 1900. The second, made up of metal pipes, was put up in 1973.
SOIUSA classification
According to the SOIUSA Alps by SOIUSA.
SOIUSA (an acronym for - English: ''International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps-ISMSA'') is a proposal for a new classification system of the Alps from the geographic and toponomastic point of view.
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(''International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps'') the mountain can be classified in the following way:Eastern Alps
Eastern Alps is the name given to the eastern half of the Alps, usually defined as the area east of a line from Lake Constance and the Alpine Rhine valley up to the Splügen Pass at the Alpine divide and down the Liro River to Lake Como in t ...
* major sector = Southern Limestone Alps
The Southern Limestone Alps ( it, Alpi Sud-orientali, german: Südliche Kalkalpen), also called the Southern Calcareous Alps, are the ranges of the Eastern Alps south of the Central Eastern Alps mainly located in northern Italy and the adjacen ...
* section = Venetian prealps
The Venetian Prealps (''Prealpi Venete'' in Italian) are a mountain range in the south-eastern part of the Alps. They are located in Triveneto, in the north-eastern part of Italy.
Geography
Administratively the range is divided between the It ...
* subsection = Prealpi Vicentine
* supergroup = Gruppo degli Altipiani
* group = Altopiano dei sette comuni
* subgroup = Dorsale Cima Dodici-Ortigara
* code = II/C-32.I-A.3.b
See also
* List of Alpine peaks by prominence
This is a list of the mountains of the Alps, ordered by their topographic prominence. For a list by height, see the list of mountains of the Alps. By descending to 1,500 m of prominence, this list includes all the Ultras of the Alps. Some famous p ...
References
External links
"Cima Dódici, Italy" on Peakbagger
{{Ultras of Europe
Mountains of Veneto
Mountains of Trentino
Mountains of the Alps
Mountains of Italy
Vicentine Alps