A Photo Gallery of an ascent

of the 3899m Ortler

in the Alps of NE Italy

Ortler ( Ortler in German; Cima Ortles in Italian) is the seventh highest mountain in the Eastern Alps and the main peak of the Ortler Group, a mountain range in the South Tyrol.

Index of Photographs: ( Thumbnail Gallery )

• The Ortler

• Alpine Peaks above Solda Village

• The Gran Zebru from Solda Village

• The Ortler on ascent to hut

• The Ortler on ascent to hut (b)

• The Ortler on approach to hut

• The Ortler on ascent from hut

 

• Traverse of rock tower

• Climbing snow slopes above rock tower

• Ice cliffs beneath Ortler summit

• Ice cliffs on route to Ortler summit

• Climbing snow slopes bypassing ice cliffs

• Climbing steep snow slopes

 

• Approaching summit

• Final slopes to summit

• On summit of the Ortler

• Gran Zebru from summit of the Ortler

• Descending from the Ortler

 

• Ortler from the North

• Ortler from the North (b)

• Ortler from the North (c)

• Gran Zebru

• Gran Zebru (b)

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