Jôf di Montasio

Montasio in the western Julian Alps

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The Montasio (obsolete branch ) is at an altitude of 2,754 m, the highest peak of the mountain range named after him. The Montaschgruppe is over 20 km long, running east -west direction formidable barrier of rock in the Italian part of the Western Julian Alps.

The west wall of the Montasio is not, as cited in the literature, higher than the east wall of the Watzmanns. It begins in the Clapadorieschlucht to about 1400 m and thus reaches to the peak height of about 1350 m. The rates in the Alpine Club leader Julian Alps 1900 m refer to the to be overcome height difference of the route described there, but already in the valley far away from the starting wall.

The Montaschgruppe consists of three mountain chains, which together meet in the summit of Montasio.

• The shortest chain moves from the branch ( Montasio ) north over the Krnicenturm ( 2,033 m) to Köpfach ( 1,861 m) (Italian: Jof di Somdogna ) over the Somdognasattel ( 1,405 m) to Mittagskofel ( 2,089 m).
• The second chain starts in the Forca dei Disteis ( 2,241 m) and moved to the West. Your summits are the Zabu Monte ( 2,244 m), the Monte del Cimone montasio ( 2,380 m) and the Cima Valisetta ( 2,186 m). This chain ends in the West with the Monte Pecol ( 1,515 m) and Mount Jovet ( 1,814 m), two peaks immediately above the Fellatal. This is a Cimonezug torn by wild gorges rock bastion. Your wild north walls plunge into the Dognatal, their steep flanks in the south in the Raccolanatal.
• The third chain branches off in a southeasterly direction from the branch ( Montasio ). Your summit Wischberg ( Vert Montasio ) ( 2,661 m) to the White Bacherspitze ( Cregnedul ) ( 2,351 m) form a powerful, especially to the north with indomitable translucent walls crashing into the wall Seisera. This chain are upstream to the south the wide pastures of Pecol ( 1,517 m).

The first ascent was made in 1877 by Hermann Findenegg and Antonio Brussoferro. In World War I ran through the Montaschgruppe from Köpfach to Cregnedul and the Neveapass the Italian front. Although the Montasio was unassailable with its vertical north faces for the Austrians, the Alpini had expanded to the peaks and notches positions that they also kept busy in the winter.