Hoher Tenn

View to the south from the north end of Lake Zell, Zell am See High middle Tenn ( 3368 m) with Imbachhorn ( 2470 m) and foothills, right Kitzsteinhorn ( 3203 m ), left Schwarzkopf ( 2765 m)

The High Tenn., formerly also called Hochtenn, is a zweigipfeliger mountain in the Austrian state of Salzburg. It consists of a southwest summit, called peak with an altitude of 3368 meters and the East summit, called snow covered peak, is 3317 meters high. The Tenn is part of the Glockner Group in the central part of the Hohe Tauern in the Central Alps. Between the two peaks located at an altitude of 3293 meters, the Tennsattel. To the north- east and north-west, he sends out strong long ridges. He has particularly to the north a large geographical dominance that it, combined with its easily accessible, makes it a popular mountain for climbing. Viewed from Zell am See im Pinzgau from it dominates behind the Imbachhorn ( 2470 m) the Tauernpanorama.

History

The High Tenn was first climbed unsecured reportedly in the 1840s by the Cardinal Friedrich Prince Schwarzenberg in a small company. The first documented literary exceeded both summit took place on August 16, 1871 by the fur traders Albert Kaindl from Linz and Josef Pöschl from Vienna with the mountain guide, Johann grill, called the Kederbacher. However, the group took on two peaks already trigonometric characters that must have been brought up already in the 1850s in the context of land surveying.

Environment

Geographically, the High Tenn. located in the center of the so-called Fuscher / Kaprun ridge that extends from north to south. To the north of Tenn. falls down into the Salzach Valley, to the east into Fusch valley and to the west down to the reservoir Wasserfallboden in the Kaprun valley. On the High Tenn. Located west of the Tennsattels in the summit area, the so-called Triangular snowfield. Smaller glaciers are in the southeast, the Walcher Kees, in the southwest of the Wielingerkees and to the northwest, the small Hirzbachkees. Neighboring significant peaks are located just south of the Tenns. In the ridge line are separated by the Wiesbach Charter ( 3031 m), the Small Wiesbachhorn with a height of 3283 meters, the highest mountain in the region of the 3564 -meter-high Great Wiesbachhorn. To the north, even the insignificant Small Tenn is ( 3155 m). Fusch on the Großglockner High Alpine Road is located approximately seven kilometers in a straight line north-east of the High Tenns removed and Kaprun good 11 km to the north.

Base and routes

The Way of Cardinal Schwarzenberg led from the northeast from Fusch on the Schmalzgrubenalm and former lard Grub Enkees up to Zwingkopf ( 3117 m) and then over the Tenngrat, the northeast ridge, the summit. The walk was according to the literature about six hours.

Today serves as a base for an ascent of the High Tenns the Gliwice Steelworks at 2176 meters altitude. The normal route leads from the hut on the first Gliwice trail to Kempsenkopf ( 3090 m) and at the peasant fallow head ( 3125 m) down to the Hirzbachtörl. In the further course, the trail leads along very exposed on wire ropes and iron pins up on the little Tenn ( 3158 m ), and finally on the northwest ridge to the summit point. The climb requires a head for heights and the ability in the UIAA difficulty level II to III can climb up. Walking time is according to the literature about 5 hours at a height difference of 915 meters. More climbing routes up to UIAA grade III through the north wall and the northern pillar.

Sources and maps

• Willi End: Alpine Club leaders Glocknergruppe, Bergverlag Rother, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7633-1266-8
• Eduard Richter: The development of the Eastern Alps, III. Band, publisher of the German and Austrian Alpine Club, Berlin 1894
• Alpine Club map 1:25,000, sheet 40, Glocknergruppe