Zuckerhütl

Seen Zuckerhütl, in mid-May of the Wild Pfaff

Zuckerhütl mid-November 2009, seen from the savages from Pfaff.

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Zuckerhütl is 3,507 meters the highest mountain in the Stubai Alps, Tirol. It is located entirely in northern Tirol near the border of South Tyrol.

Zuckerhütl named after its already visible from the entrance of the Stubaital from graceful form. From the east it appears rocky, raw and abrasive as bold Firnhorn with Sugarloaf character, from the west. The area covered by ice and firn north side apert by the glacier retreat from visibly.

West of Zuckerhütls is the cutting Pfaff ( 3498 m), the southeastern neighbor of Zuckerhütls is the Wild Pfaff ( 3,458 meters) over which it is often climbed - it is the route of the Nuremberg hut and the Mueller hut. Frequently committed ascent routes there are also about the Hildesheimer Hütte, the Sulzenauhütte and from the skiing area Stubai Glacier. Of all these starting points of the summit building is boarded mostly on the East Ridge from Pfaffensattel ( 3332 m), the saddle between Zuckerhütl and Wilder Pfaff, the difficulty level I. A variation in the difficulty II leads from the east ridge in the southern flank. Other, less frequently committed climbs pass through the south wall (IV ), on the Pfaff and cutting through the 60 ° steep icy north wall.

Long before there were regular surveys, they had kept the hawk because of its exposed position for the highest mountain in the Stubai Alps.

From the summit cross on Zuckerhütl (built in 1947), the film summit cross is from 1948, which is presented from time to time in Fulpmes. The film includes not only the genesis of spectacular images during a storm in the Icefall Sulzenauferners. 2001 toppled the cross and was long demolished on the ground until, in a letter to the editor of a newspaper in this state was made aware. The mountain guides in Neustift then took the initiative and established an entirely new summit cross.