Cold Mountain ( sl, Mrzla gora)
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mountain A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited Summit (topography), summit area, and ...

in the

Kamnik Alps Kamnik (; german: Stein''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, pp. 26–27. or ''Stein in Oberkrain'') is a town in northern Slovenia. It is t ...

. Cold Mountain rises over three valleys: the Logar Valley, the Matk Cirque ( sl, Matkov kot), and the Vellach Combe (german: Vellacher Kotschna, sl, Belska kočna). It is rarely visited because it is relatively difficult to ascend with many exposed areas. The border with

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runs along the northern and western side, and until 1967 it was difficult to access because of political problems. Its first climbers had problems scaling it. In 1876, Robert von Lendenfeld and a guide named Matijevec from

Luče Luče (; sometimes ''Luče ob Savinji'', german: Leutsch) is the largest settlement and the centre of the Municipality of Luče in northern Slovenia. It belongs to the traditional region of Styria and is now included in the Savinja Statistical Regi ...

reached the western peak and they descended, thinking they had reached the highest peak. In 1877, Karl Blodig (the first to climb every peak over in

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) tried two times, but quit due to weather well below the top. In the same year

Johannes Frischauf Johannes Frischauf (17 September 1837 in Vienna – 7 January 1924 in Graz) was an Austrian mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geodesist and alpinist. Life and work Frischauf passed the matura at the Academic Gymnasium in Vienna and in ...

, Piskernik, and Matek finally conquered the top. The Frischauf Lodge on Okrešelj is named after him.

Routes

* 3½h from the Frischauf Lodge at Okrešelj ( sl, Frischaufov dom na Okrešlju) * 4½h from the Logar Sisters Lodge ( sl, Dom sester Logar) * 5½ from the

Czech Lodge at Spodnje Ravni The Czech Lodge at Spodnje Ravni ( sl, Češka koča na Spodnjih Ravneh; ) is a mountain hut, mountain hostel that stands on the Spodnje Ravni Cirque above the Ravne Combe () below the northern part of Grintovec, Mount Grintovec and the Long Ridge ...

( sl, Češka koča na Spodnjih Ravneh) * 5½ from Vellach through the Vellach Combe

References

* Slovenska planinska pot, Planinski vodnik, PZS, 2012, Milenko Arnejšek - Prle, Andraž Poljanec

External links

Opis poti na Mrzlo goro iz Matkovega kota (Description of the Route to Cold Mountain from the Matk Cirque)

Cold Mountain on hribi.net Route Description and Photos
Mountains of the Kamnik–Savinja Alps Mountains of Styria (Slovenia) Two-thousanders of Slovenia {{Slovenia-geo-stub