The Durreck (, also called the ''Durreckspitze'', it, Cima Dura) is the highest mountain in the

Durreck Group The Durreck Group in South Tyrol is an independent mountain range within the Venediger Group. To the north and west it is bounded by the Tauferer Ahrntal, behind which the peaks of the Zillertal Alps stand. To the south it is separated by the val ...

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Ahrntal Ahrntal (; it, Valle Aurina ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about northeast of the city of Bolzano (''Bozen''), on the border with Austria. Geography Ahrntal borders the following municipalities: Mühl ...

valley in the north from the Reintal valley in the south.

Location

The Durreck lies on the main chain of the mountains that runs from northeast to southwest. This main crest forks only about 100 metres to the southwest at the nearby subpeak of the ''Zwieselnöckl'' (3,088 m). One branch runs southwards to the Großer Moosstock (3,059 m) and the other northwards, via the Klausnock (2,819 m), Rauchkofel (2,653 m) and Pojenspitze (2,453 m) near the Obersteiner Holm (2,395 m) above

Luttach Luttach ( it, Lutago) is a mountain village in northern Italy. It is a ''frazione'' of the ''comune'' of Ahrntal in South Tyrol. It is a popular tourist destination in all seasons and boasts several hotels, as well as numerous shops and an indoor ...

. Northeast of the Durreck at a distance of half a kilometre is a very prominent, but unnamed subpeak at 3,056 metres. Further along the main chain to the northwest is the ''Gamskarschneide'', several peaks just under the 3000-metre mark and finally the Hirbernock (3,010 m). Northwest of the Durreck are the last remnants of glaciation in the Durreck Group, the ''Klausenkees'' glacier, that still descended as low as 2,300 metres in 1910. The whole area is part of the

Rieserferner-Ahrn Nature Park The Rieserferner-Ahrn Nature Park (german: Naturpark Rieserferner-Ahrn) is a nature reserve in South Tyrol, Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is loca ...

First ascents

The Durreck was

first climbed In mountaineering, a first ascent (abbreviated to FA in guide books) is the first successful, documented attainment of the top of a mountain or the first to follow a particular climbing route. First mountain ascents are notable because they en ...

in July 1877 by C. Arnold from Munich and Josef Außerhofer from

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. They approached from the south, from Moosmaier Alm. In summer 1883 the Durreck was first crossed by V. H. Schnorr from Zwickau with a guide, Stabeler, from Taufers. They started from the Ahrntal to the north and descended into the Reintal valley. On 20 August 1909 another route up the Durreck was ascended for the first time by O. Primus and F. Schaufler from Innsbruck and H. Schwarweber from Pforzheim, following the northern ridge above the Klausenkees to the top.Schwarzweber (1910), p. 212f.

References

Literature and maps

* Hermann Schwarzweber: ''Die Durreckgruppe. Ein Beitrag zu ihrer Erschließung.'' In: ''Zeitschrift des deutschen und österreichischen Alpenvereins.'' 41: 202–240, Munich, 1910 (online at ALO) * Richard Goedeke: ''3000er in den Nordalpen.'' Bruckmann, Munich, 2004, * Topographic walking map, ''Ahrntal / Rieserferner Gruppe'', Sheet 035, 1:25,000, Casa Editrice Tabacco,

External links

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