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Title: The eastern Alps : including the Bavarian highlands, Tyrol, Salzkammergut, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Istria. Handbook for travellers
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipsic : Karl Baedeker
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
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with the passage ofthe Madritsch-Joch to the Martellthal (comp. p. 287). — The Innere Peder-spitze (10,768; 5 hrs. ; guide 5 fl.), the Plattenspitze (11,286; 5 hrs.; 41/2 fl.)-and the Madritschspitze (10,692; 41/2 hrs.; 41/2 fl.), peaks similar to theSchontaufspitze, are also occasionally ascended. More fatiguing are theMittlere Pederspitze (11,345; 5-6 hrs.; 51/2 fl.), the Hohe Angelus (11,588;6 hrs.; 5V2 fl.), and the Tschengelser Hochwand (11,060; 6 hrs.; 5 fl.). The -Cevedale (12,3S0; 7 hrs., or from the Schaubachhiitte 4V2-5hrs.;guide 8 fl.), a magnificent point, is easy for adepts. The preceding nightshould be spent in the Schaubachhiitte (p. 288), whence we traverse theSiilden Glacier to the (2V2 hrs.) Eissee Pass; see p. 292. We leave theCevedale Pass (p. 292) to the right, ascend gradually to the left over terracesof snow, and lastly mount the steep Cevedale ridge, where steps must some- Baedekeks Eastern Alps. 6th Edit. 19 290 VL Route 52. SCHONTAUFSPITZE. Ortler Disfrlct.
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Ortler District. ORTLER. VI. Route 52, 291 times be cut, to the saddle between the central and the S. i)eak and followthe arete to the (2-3 hrs.) S. and highest peak. (The Cevedale, called inthe Martellthal the Zufallspitze or Fiirkele^ forminji the central mass ofthe Ortler Alps, and long regarded as their highest mountain, consists ofthree peaks: the N. 12,135, the central 12,035, and the 8. 12,380.) The■View vies with that from the Ortler, and is by many preferred, theOrtler group itself being seen to much greater advantage. To the S.W.the Adamello, Presanella, and Brenta Alps are conspicuous. At our feetlie the Val di Cedeh (Val Furva), Val della 3Iare, the Martellthal, andthe Upper Vintschgau. — Descent by the Cevedale Pass to Sta. Caterina^see below (5 hrs.; guide 12 fl.)^ by the Langen-Ferner to Martell (4V2-5 hrs.to the Zufallhiitte; guide 10 fl.), see p. 286. By the Vedretta Venezia tothe Cevedale Hut (p. 312) in the Val della Mare and to Pejo (7 hrs.; twoguides at 15 fl

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