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The names of the surrounding mountains were rather confusing. "Kleiner", "Mittlerer", "Großer" and "Vorderer Bärenkopf" (i.e. "Little", "Middle", "Great" and "Fore") were designations arbitrarily given to different peaks and, in some cases, the same peaks. Not until the 1891
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summit, but from the west it has a mighty, 1,400-metre-high (4,600 ft) and 40 to 60° rock face. A steep, 500-metre-long (1,600 ft) knife-edge ridge bears away from the mountaintop to the north. Due to its close proximity to the
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Hinterer Bratschenkopf. According to the literature, the journey takes about 2 to 3 hours, depending on the conditions. Another option is the easy firn ascent from the southeast. More difficult climbs run from the
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was issued was there an authoritative allocation of names, that gave a recognised schema for
Alpinists and reduced the then common difficulties of orientation and mistakes in climbing and surveying.
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Heinrich Schwaiger Haus over the Kaindlgrat, the Wielingerscharte and the northeast flank to the summit
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in 1869 runs from the Kaprun side, i.e. from the north, over the glacier saddle with the misleading name of
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Bratschenkopfkees as an ice tour up the South Flank with gradients of 40 to 60°. Climbing routes of
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The name "Hinterer
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gives its height as 3,413 metres. The mountain lies in the
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479:References
440:Kaindlgrat
384:ice divide
369:Südostgrat
345:Kaindlkees
291:Franz Keil
75:12°34′09″E
72:47°09′07″N
424:Alpinists
380:Klockerin
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100:Geography
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250:Salzburg
188:Climbing
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166:Geology
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