This mountain was first summited in 1800 by a party led by the brothers Sepp and Martin Klotz.
This mountain was first summited in 1800 by a party led by the brothers Sepp and Martin Klotz. It lies some 30 kilometers northwest of the city of Lienz and the view from the top of it on a clear day stretches from the Ortler in the West to Triglav in the east. The Pasterze Glacier lies at its base along a heavily traveled road named for this mountain which also contains the phrase (*) "Hochalpenstrasse." It lies in the center of the Hohe Tauern and on the border of Carinthia and Tyrol, near where both of those states border the state of Salzburg. For 15 points, name this mountain, the second most prominent in the Alps by relative height and which since 1919 has been the highest in Austria.
This mountain was first summited in 1800 by a party led by the brothers Sepp and Martin Klotz.
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