Karlesspitze

The Karlesspitze of North East ( Rear soul Kogel )

The Karlesspitze (Italian Cima di Quaira ), called on the Tirol Map of Peter Anich Grub tip, is a 3462 m above sea level. A. high mountain in the main crest of the Ötztal Alps. He is exactly on the border between the Austrian province of Tyrol, and the Italian Autonomous Province of Bolzano -Alto Adige. The mountain has a pointed cone shape with partial Firnüberdeckung in the northwest and northeast. To the south it falls steeply into Pfossental. The peak was first climbed by tourists from the English economist Alfred Marshall of Cambridge and the guides Blasius Green and Peter Paul Gstrein Gurgl on 30 August 1869.

Location

The Karlesspitze located about nine kilometers in a straight line north-east of Karthaus Senales and 12 kilometers south of Obergurgl, in the municipality of Sölden in the Ötztal. To the south, the tip has by its massive, steep, 500 meter high south wall a large geographical dominance. Adjacent peaks to the east, along the main ridge, the 3365 meter high Falschunggspitze, in the west, separated by the location at 3269 meters above sea level already in the accumulation of Schalfferners Karlesjoch that Fanatspitze already lying on the Italian territory ( 3361 m). In the course of Nordgrats is separated by the Querkogeljoch to 3346 meters, the 3448 meters high cross Kogel. To the north and west of the glacier Schalfferner extends to just below the summit of Karlesspitze. To the east is the accumulation zone of the Gurgler Glacier.

Bases and routes

Alfred Marshall, who spent his holidays in 1869 in Tyrol, wanted to walk with the two guides of Obergurgl on a new high alpine road to Vent. Your path led instead of the Schalfkogel therefore the Gurgler Furthermore first in a southerly direction to the Connection Ridge from the cross- Kogel for Karlesspitze that you passed. Marshall is survived by his later discovered card under stones on the summit, on which he had provided further information on their route. Today's normal route to the Karlesspitze, at the same time the way of the first ascent, via the north ridge fissured hanging as high tour with the proper equipment and knowledge. As base is the location 2,883 meters altitude Hochwildehaus. From the hut the way south across the Gurgler also mentions to Querkogeljoch, which is achieved with a moderately difficult climb in difficulty UIAA II over rocks and boulders, then south on the exposed snow ridge to the summit, according to the literature, 4 ½ hours walk. Accessible is the Karlesspitze also from the Martin- Busch-Hütte ( 2501 m) on the west ridge in six hours.

Literature and Maps

  • Walter Klier: Alpine Club leaders Ötztal Alps, Mountain Publishing Rudolf Rother, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7633-1123-8.
  • Richard Goedeke: 3000 in the northern Alps, Bruckmann, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7654-3930-4
  • Alpine Club map scale 1:25,000, sheet 30/1, Gurgl, ISBN 3-928777-38-6
  • Casa Editrice Tabacco, Tavagnacco: Carta Topografica 1:25,000, sheet 04, Schnalstal / Val Senales, Naturno / Naturns
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