Tuckettspitze

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The Tuckettspitze (Italian Cima Tuckett ) is a 3462 meter high mountain in the crystal comb, a line extending from the Stelvio Pass to the Ortler mountain range of western Ortler Alps, a mountain range of the Southern Eastern Alps. It lies on the border between the Italian provinces of South Tyrol and Sondrio.

To the east and south-west of the mountain emits distinctive ridges that mark the course of the crystal comb. Another, slightly trained ridge to the north, is used as a simple rise to the top. About him the Tuckettspitze was first climbed on 12 September 1866 by Julius Payer, an Austrian, originating from Bohemia, Polar and Alpine explorer and mountain guide, Johann Pinggera from Solda. Your name has received the tip of Payer in the 1860s, in honor of the English mountaineer and catalogers of Francis Fox Tuckett Ortler group, * 1834, † 1913, Vice- President of the English Alpine Club and a member of the Royal Geographical Society. Today, the mountain is one of the firnbedeckte Livriohütte ( Rifugio Livrio ) from easily accessible and often perpetrated goal.

Environment

The Tuckettspitze is surrounded by glaciers. To the north is the Madatschferner ( Vedretta del Madaccio ), and to the east and south, the Vedretta di Campo. Adjacent peaks are in the course of crystal ridge to the east, separated by the Tuckettjoch situated on 3354 meters height ( Passo di Tuckett ) and the Trafoier yoke ( Passo di Trafoi, 3317 m), the Large and Small Schneeglocke ( Piccola Grande Cima di Campana, 3411 and 3421 m), and subsequently at the Trafoier ice wall ( the Cima Trafoi, 3565 meters high). In the southwestern ridge line are separated by the Passo di Campo ( 3346 m) to 3480 meters high crystal peaks ( Cime di Campo), and further west the 3446 meter high Payer tip ( Punta Payer ) and the Punta del Cristallo, 3450 meters high. The village Trafoi in Gomagoi in Trafoi is located approximately six kilometers in a straight line in a northerly direction, the Stelvio Pass is good 5 km north west direction.

Bases and Ascension

Payers and Pinggeras way in 1866 began to Franzenshöhe (now a hotel at the hairpin # 22 of the Stelvio road at 2189 meters above sea level ). It broke at 6:30 clock on in a southerly direction and reached against 7:45 clock the foot of Mount Livrio. In dense fog, they crossed the Madatschferner with orientation problems, but reached the north ridge of Tuckettspitze and were in the ice with the ice pick around 11:30 clock on the top, without being able to see anything after beating some stages. Because of the fog, they took the safe side the same way back to Franzenshöhe. The first Englishman to the Tuckettspitze were on 31 July 1867, botanist Henry T. Mennell and the politician and writer Robert Spence Watson. Alexander Flury from Pontresina, photographer and mountain guide led them Trafoi from the Tuckettjoch and on the east ridge to the summit.

Today serves as a base for an ascent of the Tuckettspitze Livriohütte at 3174 meters altitude, in the middle of the developed numerous ski lifts Stelvio lying. From the hut leads the normal route, the easiest ascent, lightweight, high tour, with appropriate equipment and glacier experience, over the Madatschferner and the north ridge to the summit, according to the literature, two hours walking time. The slope of the ridge is a maximum of 30 °. Further increases lead over East and South-west ( in the climbing difficulty UIAA I), since 1939 through the south-east wall ( UIAA III) and since 1931 also by the north-west wall ( UIAA II).

Sources and maps

• Peter Holl: Alpine Club leaders Ortler Alps, 9th edition, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7633-1313-3
• Casa Editrice Tabacco, Tavagnacco: Carta topografica 1:25,000, sheet 08, Ortles-Cevedale/Ortlergebiet