Hohe Geige

High violin from the Hundsbachalm ( from the northwest )

The High violin is a mountain in the Ötztal Alps in the Austrian province of Tyrol with a height of 3393 m above sea level. A.. , According to other sources 3395 m above sea level. A. It is the highest elevation in Geigenkamm, a line extending from south to north mountain range. To the north, east and west of the mountain sends distinctive ridges that run across the climbing routes and trails to climb the summit. Was first climbed the High violin in 1853 as part of the national survey by a captain Ganahl. The first tourist commission succeeded Theodor Petersen and mountain guide, C. Benzien in 1873.

Location

The High violin is in the center of which runs from north to south violin comb. It is flanked to the north and east of glaciers. West of Nordgrats the Rötkarlferner pulls to just below the summit and east extends twice as broad, about two kilometers long, Outer Pirchlkarferner at a right angle from north to east. South of the Outer wild cutting -called Ostgrats the interior is Pirchlkarferner. Adjacent Mountains are in the course of Nordgrats the High Peak with 3296 meters, 3021 meters high in the east and south of the Fotzenkarstange Ampferkogel (3186 m). The western edge of the High violin falls into the Pitztal, the east side of the Pollestal, a western tributary valley of the Ötztal valley near the hamlet of Huben at length field. The nearest major town is Planggeroß, a district of the town of St. Leonhard im Pitztal, the chief of the violin is about 3.5 km in a straight line south-west.

Touristic development

As a base for an ascent of the High violin today serves the lying at an altitude of 2323 meters Rüsselsheimer Hut ( former Chemnitz hut), to the east above Planggeroß. From there, the normal route, the lightest increase from southwest performs in a walking time of about, according to the literature, 3 ½ hours to the summit of the Hohe violin. A climbing route in difficulty UIAA II results in four hours on the west ridge. In 1887 the north ridge was committed on the rise for the first time, but this way is via the north located glacier sections, thereby providing a high tour represents, requires the glacier experience and appropriate equipment. The path taken by the first led in 1873 by the eastern Middle Pollesalm (1776 m) on the inside Pirchlkarferner to the summit. 1935 was the first time the eastern ridge, called the Outer Wilde cutting, defeated in seven hours and in partial harder climbing in the UIAA grade III.

Sources and maps

• Walter Klier: Alpine Club leaders Ötztal Alps, Mountain Publishing Rother, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7633-1123-8
• Alpine Club map 1:25,000, sheet 30 /5, Oetztal Alps - Geigenkamm