Hochgall
Hochgall | |
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Alpine mountains above 3000 m | |
Coordinates | 46°54′45″N 12°08′30″E / 46.91250°N 12.14167°E |
Geography | |
Location | Defereggen valley members of a party of the land surveyor Hermann van Acken |
The Hochgall is a mountain of the
Climbing history
For the Austrian land survey of 1853-1854, Hermann van Acken and guides/helpers from the
This ascent was not well-known, and when 14 years later Karl Hofmann and V. Kaltdorff visited the Defereggen valley, they understood from the locals that the mountain was unclimbed and unclimbable. Not able to hire guides, they hiked over the Klammljoch north of the mountain to Rein in Taufers where they found Georg Weiss und Hans Oberarzbacher, who two years earlier had first ascended the Schneebiger Nock, willing to guide them up. On 3 August 1868 the party reached the main summit over the NW ridge via the Middle Rieserferner. This route was repeated in 1871, and with variations in 1873 and 1875.[1]
The complete West face was first climbed in 1879 and an ascent over the South face from
References
- ^ a b c Carl Diener, Die Rieserferner Gruppe in Die Erschliessung der Ostalpen, Volume 3, Deutscher und Österreichischer Alpenverein, 1894, pp. 110-114
- Werner Beikircher: Rieserfernergruppe (ISBN 3-7633-1227-7
External links
Media related to Hochgall at Wikimedia Commons