Spitzmauer
Sign in to savethumb|The Spitzmauer, from the north-east With its summit at above sea level, the Spitzmauer (lit. translatable as "sharp/steep wall") is the second highest mountain of the Totes Gebirge mountain range in the south of Upper Austria. A Dachstein Formation, the mountain was first touristically climbed by Vienna botanist Karl Stoitzner, school teacher H. Langeder, and mountain guide Matthias "Haarschlager" Hotz on 23 July 1858. It took several more years until a passage through the sharp, name-giving, eastern wall was found by Robert Damberger and Hans Kirchmaier in 1906.
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thumb|The Spitzmauer, from the north-east With its summit at above sea level, the Spitzmauer (lit. translatable as "sharp/steep wall") is the second highest mountain of the Totes Gebirge mountain range in the south of Upper Austria. A Dachstein Formation, the mountain was first touristically climbed by Vienna botanist Karl Stoitzner, school teacher H. Langeder, and mountain guide Matthias "Haarschlager" Hotz on 23 July 1858. It took several more years until a passage through the sharp, name-giving, eastern wall was found by Robert Damberger and Hans Kirchmaier in 1906.
thumb|Spitzmauer (left) next to the Brotfall (middle) and the Großer Priel (far right), as seen from the [[Schiederweiher]] The most common climbing route takes around four hours, starts in Hinterstoder and passes the mountain hut. A more challenging route starts in Grünau im Almtal and passes the .