!!!Glockner

Glockner Mountain (Grossglockner), Carinthia/East Tirol, alt. 3,798 m, 
Austria´s highest mountain, situated at the border of Carinthia 
and East Tirol, on the crest of the  Glocknergruppe Mountains. This 
particular crest extends towards the south of the Hohe Tauern mountain 
range. It consists of prasinite, a metamorphic igneous rock that is 
found in the slate of the Tauern mountain range. A characteristic 
feature of the Glockner, situated to the west of the  Pasterze Glacier 
is its pyramid form. It consists of two peaks, the Grossglockner and 
the Kleinglockner (alt. 3,770 m), separated by the Glockner gap and 
surrounded by glaciers. On July 28, 1800, Salm-Reifferscheid, the 
Prince Bishop of Gurk, and Count Siegmund Hohenwart led a group of 
young men, F. Horasch (a priest), the Klotz brothers and two 
carpenters to the first ascent of the Glockner. Nowadays the peak can 
be reached from two directions, from the southeast, via the village of 
Heiligenblut in the Moelltal valley (Carinthia) and the mountain 
refuge Franz-Josefs Haus (burned down in 1997), or from the southwest, 
via the village of Kals (East Tirol) and the Lucknerhaus mountain 
refuge (alt. 1,918 m). Since 1980 access to the mountain from the 
southwest has also been possible via the "Kalser Glocknerstrasse". The 
road from a southeastern direction is the  
Grossglockner-Hochalpenstrasse.


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