Ortler (3905m), highest mountain in the Eastern Alps, main peak of the Ortler Group, a mountain range in South Tyrol and Trentino, Italy. Before World War I it was the top of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. It was first climbed by a local huntsman, Josef Pichler ("Pseirer-Josele") on 27 September 1804. Altitude is the elevation of an object from a known level or datum, called zero level. ... Latitude, denoted φ, gives the location of a place on Earth north or south of the Equator. ... Map of Earth showing curved lines of longitude Longitude, sometimes denoted λ, describes the location of a place on Earth east or west of a north-south line called the Prime Meridian. ... South Tyrol ( German Autonome Provinz Bozen-Südtirol, Italian Provincia autonoma di Bolzano-Alto Adige, Ladin Provinzia autonóma de Bulsan-Südtirol) is an autonomous province of Italy. ... The most general definition of mountain range is a group of mountains bordered by lowlands. ... South Tyrol ( German Autonome Provinz Bozen-Südtirol, Italian Provincia autonoma di Bolzano-Alto Adige, Ladin Provinzia autonóma de Bulsan-Südtirol) is an autonomous province of Italy. ... Trentino-Alto Adige or Trentino-South Tyrol (in German: Trentino-Südtirol, in Italian: Trentino-Alto Adige) is an autonomous region in northern Italy. ... Missing image Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ...
The Ortler Alps (Italian Ortles) are a mountain range in the central Alps of Italy.
The Ortler Alps are separated from the Livigno Range in the north-west by the Stelvio Pass and the Adda River valley (Valtellina); from the Adamello-Presanella range in the south by the Tonale Pass; from the Ötztal Alps in the north-east by the upper Adige valley (Vinschgau-Val Venosta).
The Ortler Alps are drained by the rivers Adda, Oglio, Adige and its tributary Noce.
Unfortunately, the Ortler Group is not covered by the high quality maps of Switzerland or the Alpenverein.
The Ortler Group itself is not a very big mountain group, but nonetheless a very attractive one for the ambitioned mountaineer: almost nowhere else in the East Alps are so many high peaks accessed as easily as here.
Ortler or Königsspitze, is certainly the Hoher Angelus accessed from the Düsseldorfer Hütte, which combines easy climbs, 40° ice and/or snow fields and glacier contact if you wish.
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