Schneck (mountain)

East View

The worm is a 2,268 meter high Grasberg in the Allgäu Alps. Due to its peculiar shape, it is (like the Höfats ) unique in the Northern Limestone Alps. He is the natural continuation of the sweeping of the Höfats to the northeast, interrupted by a depression in the posterior Oytal massif and has a similar wealth of flowers, as the Höfats. From the Oytal seen, he forms the end of the valley floor.

Ascent

The actual summit is preceded by a grassy Vorgipfel the Himmeleck, which is easily accessible from the road over the Himmelecksattel for hikers. The transition to the main peak occurs very exposed on a rocky edge ( Difficulty: I). According to tradition, the hunter Thaddeus Blatter said to have worn in the 19th century, the peak cross upright on the rocky edge.

Rock climbing

The north perpendicular terminating north wall in 1902 climbed by H. Demeter and companions for the first time. The west wall was committed in 1904 by W. Herz and H. Haug. The partially overhanging east face ( VI, A0) was long regarded as the most difficult climb of the Allgäu Alps. By the year 1946, the Lead had been repeated only once in 1922 after its first ascent by Risch (1936 by Ignaz Vogler and Otto Niederacher ). Anderlecht Heckmair estimated in 1947, the route through the worm - east face difficult one than the north face of the Cima Grande. In 1949 he succeeded the third ascent of the wall.

The trending southwest Grasgrat falls for the sky horn very steeply into Oytal down and also provides an extremely difficult, infamous grass climbing ( Rädlergrat ) dar.

Pictures

Western flank

Summit cross

Key point