Weiße Spitze
| Weiße Spitze | |
|---|---|
Tyrol, Austria
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| Parent range | Villgraten Mountains |
| Climbing | |
| First ascent | 25 August 1894 by J. Erlsbacher |
The Weiße Spitze, at a height of 2,962 St. Jakob in Defereggen and east of the Austro-Italian border.
The close western neighbour of the Weiße Spitze is the somewhat lower
Defereggen valley
, however, their names are reversed: they view the Rote Spitze as the higher, eastern summit.
(For further details of the naming issue surrounding the Weiße Spitze and Rote Spitze see the Highest summit section of the article on the Villgraten Mountains.)
The Weiße Spitze (2,962 m, the easternmost of the two aforementioned peaks) may be climbed on a signed route only from the upper
climbing grade
II-), a totally separate route from that to the summit of the Rote Spitze.
References
- ^ "Weiße Spitze - Peakbagger". peakbagger.co.uk. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
- ^ Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen Austria: Austrian Map online (Austrian 1:50,000 map series).