Hochfeiler

Hochfeiler
Highest point
Elevation	3,510 m (11,520 ft)
Prominence	981
Listing	Alpine mountains above 3000 m
Coordinates	46°58′22″N 11°43′34″E
Geography
Hochfeiler Location in the Alps Hochfeiler Location in Austria Hochfeiler Location in Italy
Location	Tyrol, Austria / South Tyrol, Italy
Parent range	Zillertal Alps
Climbing
First ascent	24 July 1865 by Paul Grohmann, Georg Samer and Peter Fuchs

The Hochfeiler (Italian: Gran Pilastro; ‹See Tfd›German: Hochfeiler) is a mountain, 3,510 metres high, and the highest peak in the Zillertal Alps on the border between Tyrol, Austria, and South Tyrol, Italy.

The normal route to the summit

Hochfeiler (Gran Pilastro) is at the Austrian-Italian border. The Austrian side is completely under glacier. The normal south route from the Italian side is usually snow-free during the summer.

References

• Heinrich Klier, Walter Klier: Alpine Club Guide Zillertaler Alpen, Rother Verlag, Munich, (1996), ISBN 3-7633-1269-2
• Zeitschrift des Oesterreichischen Alpenvereins, Vol. II, page 127, Vienna, 1870/71
• Carl Diener in Eduard Richter (ed.): Die Erschließung der Ostalpen, Vol. III, Berlin, 1894
• Raimund von Klebelsberg: Geologie von Tirol, Berlin, 1935
• Alpine Club Map 1:25,000 series, Sheet 35/1
• Tabacco-Verlag, Udine, carta topografica 1:25,000, Sheet 037, Hochfeiler-Pfunderer Berge

External links

Media related to Hochfeiler at Wikimedia Commons

• Hochfeiler - Gran Pilastro in Mountains for Everybody.
• Gran Pilastro - Hochfeiler in AllTrails