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Mountaineering

To the Hochfeiler summit

Sasso/Stein, Pfitsch/Val di Vizze, Sterzing/Vipiteno and environs
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To the Hochfeiler summit • South Tyrol

This Hochfeiler summit (3.510 m), surrounded by glaciers, with its highest peak situated on the Alpi Aurine, east of Brenner in Southtyrol, extends over 130 kilometres along the border. 
From Sterzing / Vipiteno to the Pfitsch Valley, start by the 3rd turn and follow trail 1 upwards to the old mountain huts and furtheron all along the hillside inside the valley. The trail continues on serpentines in steady increase and over a steep pasture upwards to a junction. Follow here the trail on the left side to the summit (8A, 1A). All along the serpentines, above the ridge up to the final crest. Follow the increasingly steeper trail along the crest (on hard snow or rock underground, depending on weather) to the higheast point of the Zillertal Alps and the Eisack valley (3510m). Lunch possibility: Hochfeilerhütte mountain hut.

Distance 17.7 Km
Duration 9h:00 min
Ascent 2089.0 m
Descent 2089.0 m
Highest point 3510.0 m
Lowest point 1719.0 m
Tour Details
This Hochfeiler summit (3.510 m), surrounded by glaciers, with its highest peak east of Brenner in Southtyrol, extends over 130 kilometres along the border.