Sas dla Crusc

The Heiligkreuzkofel seen in the center of Val Badia in Pedratsches out, left the nines and tens, right Lavarela

The waste ends to the west walls of the Heiligkreuzkofels

The Heiligkreuzkofel ( Ladin Sas dla Crusc, also Rosskofel or L Ciaval, Italian Sasso di Santa Croce ) is a 2907 m slm high mountain in the Fanes in the Dolomites. It limits the Val Badia in South Tyrol east side. Below the west wall are the Sanctuary of the Holy Cross and the shelter Holy Cross Hospice.

From the Sanctuary or the lying on the other side of the mountain Fanes plateau is a marked transition in the high alpine Kreuzkofelscharte ( 2612 m). From the saddle, the summit from the south along the west crashes on rubble is not difficult reach.

In the western walls of the Heiligkreuzkofels are known mountaineers climbing routes such as Georges Livanos, Sepp Mayerl, Albert Precht, Reinhard Schiestl, Prem Darshano, Heinz Mariacher, Luisa Iovane and Christoph Hainz.

Particularly significant is the Opened in 1968 by Reinhold and Günther Messner central pier, one of the most difficult routes at that time at all. It was valued at that time with difficulty VI ( the UIAA scale was at this time a closed scale), today VII . The first iteration of this route succeeded Heinz Mariacher 1978, but with a lighter (VII ) bypassing the key point. The first free repetition of the key passage only succeeded in 1988 and Otti Orgler Andreas Wiedmann.

More modern routes are loss lei, heb schun ( IX ) Puppy Love (VIII) Friedl-Mutschlechner-/Carlo - Großrubatscher memory lane by Christoph Hainz and A. Oberbacher (7b ) and on the rocks, you monkeys (7a ) also of Hainz.