Vordere Ölgrubenspitze
View from the Front Krummgampental oil pit tip
The Front oil pit top is a 3,456 m ( according to other sources 3452 m above sea level. A. ) high mountain of Kaunergrat in the Oetztal Alps in Tyrol. It is separated from the rear oil pit tip through the 3086m high Ölgrubenjoch. In the south to Ölgrubenjoch withdrawing ridge of the oil pit head is.
The Front oil pit tip has two peaks, the South Summit at 3456 m above sea level. A. and the lower north peak on 3451 m above sea level. A..
The Front oil pit tip is extremely rewarding because of their superior view, but requires mountaineering skills or mountaineering experience. Your bold towering summit of gray rock gives it a distinctive look.
Climbing history
The first ascent of the South Summit took place on August 17, 1876 by mountain guide Praxmarer J. and I. scoop with the " warden of the Gepatsch house ". They got it through the small Hochkar north of Ölgrubenjoches to the south of the summit ridge height and gained the summit via the south ridge of the mountain.
The northern peak was on August 8, 1881 by J. P. Farrar (also with J. Praxmarer ) conquered.
Routes
The normal route leads from Taschachhaus on the way to Ölgrubenjoch up to the plateau with the glacial lakes. Where you leave the road and passes northwest through wide streets up debris. Along a stream and go on up to a glacier remnant that one deals or exceeds. Above him is accessed by an earthy gutter to the ridge ( UIAA I) and the oil pit head border in the Südscharte the Front oil pit top. As you descend into the gap to handle a steeper Gratabfall in the western flank ( scree, UIAA I) or remain directly on the ridge ( UIAA II).
On the ridge you are now rising up to the towering steep, gray summit of the peak oil pit. Here you overcome a smaller, brittle rock step. Last, turn left into a steep chute that pulls down from the summit and steeply in it ( UIAA II, extremely fragile) to the summit with summit cross and the summit book.
On the south ridge
The north peak
Oil pit tip of the south-east
Oil pit peak in winter
Oil pit tip with peaks in Kaunergrat and white crest