Petersenspitze

Petersen tip over Taschachferner and Taschachhaus ( 2,434 m)

The Petersen top is a 3,472 meter high mountain peaks of the White comb in the Oetztal Alps in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It has a firnbedeckte knoll and is popular due to its north and north-west wall with climbers as a sophisticated high tour destination. Named the peak after the chemist Theodor Petersen, who was 1869-1894 Chairman of Frankfurt the German Alpine Club section. In the years 1871-1893 Petersen get some first ascents in the Ötztal Alps. The summit on July 26, 1874 by Moritz von Dechy from Budapest, Victor Hecht from Prague, as well as the guides Johann and Josef Pinggera Spechtenhauser was first achieved as a transgression of the wild tip of the Pitztal.

Location

The Petersen peak is located in White Ridge, a northeast trending southwest, about 20 km long mountain range. It sends to the northeast, south and west distinctive ridges, which are mostly covered by glaciers. In the north, the Taschachferner extends up to the summit, to the south is the Great Vernagtferner. Adjacent Mountains are in the course of Südgrats the southeast, separated by the Brochkogeljoch ( 3423 m), the Rear Brochkogel with 3625 meters of altitude, in the west, separated by the Taschachjoch ( 3236 m), the 3400 meter high Hochvernagtwand and the North East is in the burr profile the Taschachwand with 3354 meters. The nearest major town is located in the south-east a good five kilometers as the crow Vent.

Touristic development

The way the group to Victor Pike and Moritz von Dechy on July 26, 1874 resulted from the wild tip about the Brochkogeljoch and on the south ridge to the summit, then we got into the Pitztal from. The path from Brochkogeljoch from is still the normal route, the easiest climb to the top Petersen. As a base can serve Situated on 2755 meters above sea level Vernagthütte. The walk takes three hours and according to the literature, first via the Vernagtferner on the yoke and then over the south ridge to the summit. A combined difficult route, ice to 60 ° tilt and rock in difficulty UIAA II passes through the north-west flank. The 150 -meter-high north wall with a Eisneigung of up to 50 ° from the northern Taschachhaus ( 2434 m). Karl Prusik in 1940 committed the Petersen tip over the Taschach - ice face ( Eisneigung to 50 °, rock UIAA I) first.

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 30/6 Ötztal Alps, game tip

North wall from below

In the north wall