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Großglockner

Grossglockner
Großglockner from behind the glass panorama tower.JPG
Großglockner from behind the glass panorama tower
Highest point
Elevation 3,798 m (12,461 ft)
Prominence 2,423 m (7,949 ft) 
Ranked 2nd in the Alps
Isolation 175 kilometres (109 mi)
Listing Country high point
Ultra
Coordinates 47°04′29.52″N 12°41′42.9″E / 47.0748667°N 12.695250°E / 47.0748667; 12.695250Coordinates: 47°04′29.52″N 12°41′42.9″E / 47.0748667°N 12.695250°E / 47.0748667; 12.695250
Naming
Pronunciation German: [ˌɡʁoːs ˈɡlɔknɐ]
Geography
Grossglockner is located in Austria
Grossglockner
Grossglockner
Location of Grossglockner in Austria
Location Carinthia & East Tyrol, Austria
Parent range Hohe Tauern
Climbing
First ascent 28 July 1800, by Sepp and Martin Klotz (?), Martin Reicher and two others
Easiest route PD, glacier 35°, UIAA II

The Grossglockner (German pronunciation: [ˈɡʀoːsˌɡlɔknɐ]; German: Großglockner or just Glockner is, at 3,798 metres above the Adriatic (12,461 ft), the highest mountain in Austria and the highest mountain in the Alps east of the Brenner Pass. It is part of the larger Glockner Group of the Hohe Tauern range, situated along the main ridge of the Central Eastern Alps and the Alpine divide. The Pasterze, Austria's most extended glacier, lies on the Grossglockner's eastern slope.

The characteristic pyramid-shaped peak actually consists of two pinnacles, the Grossglockner and the Kleinglockner (3,770 m (12,370 ft), from German: gross, "big", klein, "small"), separated by the Glocknerscharte col.

The name Glocknerer is first documented in a 1561 map designed by the Viennese cartographer Wolfgang Lazius. The denotation Glogger is mentioned a 1583 description of the Tyrolean Kals legal district, then referring to the whole ridge south of the Alpine main chain. In the 1760s, the Atlas Tyrolensis listed a Glockner Berg, the prefix Gross- ("great") is not mentioned before the first expedition in 1799.

According to the scholar Belsazar Hacquet (1735–1815), Glockner is possibly derived from German: Glocke ("bell"), referring to the mountain's characteristic shape. It may also be a Germanised version of the Alpine Slavic word Klek ("mountain"), as maintained in the Slovene name Veliki Klek.


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