Weißseespitze
The Weißseespitze is a 3518 m above sea level. A. ( according to other sources 3526 m above sea level. A. ) high mountain in the Ötztal Alps on the border between Tyrol South Tyrol. The mountain lies on the western end of the Gepatschferner. This one is relatively flat summit rising slope is to achieve as high a little tour of the glacier from the Brandenburg house. The only glacier -free ascent leads from the white ball hut from south to Falginjoch and on the west ridge to the summit. To the north the Weißseespitze breaks with a 500 m high Firnwand from the Weißseeferner and forms the valley of the Kaunertal. To the south are two smaller glaciers residues of Milanzer addition and Falginferner. Since the construction of the Kaunertal Glacier Road, the shortest rise from their end over the Weißseeferner on the Falginjoch and the west ridge leads to the summit.
Touristic development
Plan the operator of the glacier ski area in Kaunertal, the Kaunertal glacier tracks to expand the ski area to the summit of Weißseespitze by lifts. On 12 May 2004, the Provincial Government of Tyrol has an amendment to the Tyrolean Nature Conservation Act, which prevented new developments such as those in the Kaunertal until then, decided, and thus opens the possibility of extension. The amendment is justified by the needs of the economic empowerment of underdeveloped and churn -prone regions.
The Austrian Alpine Association criticized the planned expansion and hold the argument of the Tyrolean provincial government countered that it is about development is weak regions either at the Kaunertal still at Pitztal, in which extensions are planned in glacier regions. The OeAV is also concerned that the amendment allows for further, as yet unforeseen DEVELOPMENT in so far protected the high mountains. A given by the Alpine Club commissioned representative survey in Austria showed that the majority of the population is against further surveying the glacier.