Hochgall
Sign in to savethumb|The Hochgall seen from Rein to the north. Right rear: the Wildgall The Hochgall is a mountain of the Rieserferner group in the High Tauern. the summit is in South Tyrol, Italy, just 500 m from the Austrian border.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Hochgall
- Mountain.photo
- Hochgall fromW.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Hochgall from the west. The high (northeast) ridge on the left forms the border with Austria.
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 3436
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 1148
- Mountain.map
- Alps
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- Alps
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- bottom
- Mountain.listing
- Alpine mountains above 3000 m
- Mountain.location
- South Tyrol, Italy
- Mountain.range
- Rieserferner group
- Mountain.first_ascent
- Summer of 1854 by Defereggen Valley members of a party of the land surveyor Hermann van Acken
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thumb|The Hochgall seen from Rein to the north. Right rear: the Wildgall The Hochgall is a mountain of the Rieserferner group in the High Tauern. the summit is in South Tyrol, Italy, just 500 m from the Austrian border.
==Climbing history== For the Austrian land survey of 1853-1854, Hermann van Acken and guides/helpers from the Defereggen Valley climbed the mountain in the summer of 1854 from the East and over the NE ridge. Under "life-threatening conditions", they placed a signal on the 3371/3354 m sub-peak where the summit ridge departs from the watershed (and the current Austrian-Italian border). The party reached the summit from Sankt Jakob in Defereggen in 10 hours. A few years later Paul Grohmann interviewed one of the guides, who told him that some of them had continued to the highest summit. This was confirmed when the second party to climb this route (in 1876!) found a climbing stick not far below the main summit.