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
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 ...
("Great Solstein") () by almost and is thus the highest summit in the Nordkette. The southern side of the Kleiner Solstein facing the
Inn valley is characterised by ''
schrofen'' and steep-sided
cirque
A (; from the Latin word ') is an amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion. Alternative names for this landform are corrie (from Scottish Gaelic , meaning a pot or cauldron) and (; ). A cirque may also be a similarly shaped landform ...
s. To the north it plummets in a rock face up to high towards the valley of ''Großkristental'', which runs from the Gleirsch valley in a southwesterly direction to the Erl Saddle.
Ascent
The
normal route to the Kleiner Solstein runs from the saddle between the Großer and Kleiner Solstein, initially crossing a small ridge of rock (''Felsrippe'') then over ''schrofen'' from the south to the flat summit ridge following a
waymarked route to the top. The route to the saddle between the two peaks may be reached either from the
Solsteinhaus and the Großer Solstein or on two paths from the south from the
Neue Magdeburger Hut.
The crossing from the
Hohe Warte to the east from the ''Gamswart Saddle'' has a
climbing grade
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of UIAA III- and runs directly along the initially extremely sharp eastern
arête. There are several difficult
climbing routes up the north face.
File:Kleiner_+_Grosser_Solstein_von_NW_HQ.jpg, Kleiner (left) + Großer (right) Solstein with the Solsteinhaus from the NW
File:Kleiner_+_Grosser_Solstein_von_N_HQ.jpg, Kleiner (left) + Großer (right) Solstein from the N
File:Nordkette mit Kleinem Solstein.jpg, View of the Nordkette from the Stempeljochspitze. The Kleiner Solstein can be seen rising prominently
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Tour description
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Two-thousanders of Austria
Karwendel
Mountains of Tyrol (state)
Mountains of the Alps
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