Grossvenediger Climber's Log
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| Mister White | Route Climbed: South route Date Climbed: 29-7-2003  | |
| Easy walk to the summit. Only the last meters went over a razor sharp ridge. It's a 5 hour's round-trip from the Defreggerhaus. We had reasonable weather and a good view on the summit. | |
| Posted Aug 2, 2003 5:08 am | ||
| mpa | Eastern route Date Climbed: Aug 25, 2002 | |
| Very crowded at the top, great weather. Continued trip to Rainerhorn and Kleinvenediger. | |
| Posted Jul 29, 2003 4:18 am | ||
| Lieven | Route Climbed: north route Date Climbed: 10/07/2003 | |
| The summit was totally covered by clouds, much wind and alone on the summit. | |
| Posted Jul 14, 2003 1:43 am | ||
| Lud | Route Climbed: east Date Climbed: October 2001 | |
| Starting from the parking lot near the Matreier Tauernhaus we went up to the Neue Prager Hütte. The next day we head to the summit at 12:00 and reached around 17:30. It was totally dark, and the GPS saved us from falling into one of the deep and long crevasses. On the top there we have seen an exceptional natural phenomenon: the spectre of Brücken - a rainbow glory around our shadows formed on the mist below. | |
| Posted Jun 13, 2003 7:03 am | ||
| hoorickj | Route Climbed: South route Date Climbed: 18 march 2003 | |
| Walked up from the Defreggerhaus (and back afterwards). Easy, almost no crevasses seen, but cold and windy. About 6 hours round-trip time. | |
| Posted Mar 24, 2003 6:44 am | ||
| Luidger | Route Climbed: east route Date Climbed: 1 sep 2002 | |
| Due to very bad weather (snowfall, no visibility) we had to turn around at about 3400 m on the Obere Keesboden of Schlatenkees. Easy, but crevassed glacier ascent. Luidger | |
| Posted Sep 6, 2002 2:04 am | ||
| Velebit | Route Climbed: Eastern route - via Neue Prager Hutte Date Climbed: 4th of August 2002 | |
| On 3rd of August 18 of us came from Zagreb to Venedigerhaus at Innergschloss, in the afternoon hours. We immediately started the ascent towards Neue Prager Hutte and reached it in some 3.30h, just at sunset time. This is very beautiful path with excellent views on many waterfalls, which thunder down to valley, Kristallwand (3310m), Hoher Zaun (3467m), Schwarze Wand (3511m) and many more of beautiful Hohe Tauern peaks and especially Schlaten Kees glacier. I agree with Lezlee that Apfelstrudel in the Neue Prager Hutte is a "must try" :-) It is pity that there wasn't anymore when we returned from the top next day. In the morning it was raining and weather was not promising at all. After rain had stopped we decided to go. It was around 8 am and cloudy. After an hour long scramble over the boulders and snow fields we reached the glacier where we put on crampons and roped our selves in three's. From here most interesting part of the Venediger ascent begins. For the next hour and a half we went over and around many crevasses till we reached Oberer Keesboden, all the time with fantastic views of clouds deep bellow us. It was amazing, weather was improving all the time so my digital camera spent most of it in my hands. At this point clouds started to break, showing blue sky's above and shining Rainer Horn (3559m). After 4 hours we reached the summit. Last 20 meters were lot of fun, walking over razor sharp (50 cm wide) drift with both sides falling into infinity :-) For the next hour we were enjoying beautiful views on all sides. On the way down to Neue Prager Hutte snow shower passed over us. It was an amazing day, high up in the Austrian Alps. Rain was falling all night, preparing an excellent morning. Just as we got up at 6 am clouds, painted in sunrise colors, started to break and we had beautiful view at Gross Glockner. We descended to valley under clear blue sky, admiring again Schlaten Kees glacier and looking back all the time at Kleinvenediger (3471m) and the route we did yesterday. Aleksandar Gospic | |
| Posted Aug 7, 2002 9:32 am | ||
| maulwurf | Route Climbed: Neue Prager Hütte, East Route Date Climbed: June 2002 | |
| Nice walk, good weather and perfect panorama. | ||
| Posted Jul 24, 2002 3:47 am | ||
| lezlee | Route Climbed: east rout Date Climbed: 30 July 2002 | |
| Nice glacier walk. Over 3000 m we had beautiful sunshine. The view over the clouded valleys with peaks like Grossglockner made this trip really enjoyable. The Apfelstrudel in the Neue Prager Hutte is a "must try" dish! :-) | ||
| Posted Jul 1, 2002 10:52 am | ||
| thomas.schmeidl | Route Climbed: Bike&Ski from Neukirchen Date Climbed: May 1994 | |
| Started at 4.a.m with the bike from Neukirchen. Reached the summit on ski at 10 a.m. I was the only summitter that day, as the weather deteriorated and all the climbers on Kürsinger Hütte got up too late... | |
| Posted May 13, 2002 7:14 am | ||
| PeterCorneliusSpaeth | Route Climbed: South East Route from Defreggerhaus Date Climbed: Summer 1998 | |
| Short and easy glacier walk. Only the last meters are a bit exposed. Venediger is - like Glockner - very crowded, on most routes. We experienced that a lot of people see mountains like this as 'must have been there'. To most of them it was more important to summit than to look after the guy that broke his shoulder 50m below the track. One of the reasons I preferr less wanted routes. I think Venediger is more interesting as ski route in late spring. Peter. | |
| Posted Apr 24, 2002 9:59 am | ||
| Mathias Zehring | Route Climbed: several Date Climbed: 1985 - 1994 - 1997 | |
| July 29th 1985 - east route the "classical way" with a 20-person-group of the german alpine club. We planned to do the south east route but changed because of bad weather at that day. During descent one of us fell into a crevasse and it took 1 hour to bring him back on the surface August 10th 1994 - east route last day of a nice 5-day-hiking-tour through the Granatspitz group and Venediger group.We left the Prager hut before usual breakfast and were at 8 o'clock on top with still nice weather. There I took my first and my last gulp of "Red Bull" May 9th 1997 - north route with ski started at nice weather after 50 cm new snow the day before. At the Oberer Gletscherboden weather changed surprisingly and rapidly. We turned without crossing the last summit ridge in heavy storm and had some difficulties to find back to the Venediger-Scharte. An old climber we had met had exactly forecasted this developement. This was Markus Schmuck, first climber of the Broad Peak! | |
| Posted Feb 23, 2002 5:15 am | ||
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