Wurmaulspitze

Wurmaulspitze from southwest

The Wurmaulspitze ( 3022 m slm ), known locally also Engspitz, rises east of the innermost Valler valley on the Pfunderer mountains in South Tyrol. On the south side of the mountain the mountain grass reaches up to 2,900 meters, making the summit for his height made ​​a fairly inconspicuous impression. The somewhat unusual name of Wurmaulspitze, which is occupied in 1600 is, according to some linguists from the Celtic " vernula " come, which means something like " small alder ".

The easiest rise of the right not difficult to be climbed summit leads from the mountain village Fane (1735 m) first by the scar, a gorge of the Valler Bach, and head north to the meadows up to the Brixner Hut ( 2344 m). Now the narrower, marked trail, first follow the south-east, in an easterly, northerly direction later excessively steep but not dangerous in the wet grass slopes to the rocky summit of the Wurmaulspitze, with only a very short section of rock is secured to deal with.