What is the highest mountain in Austria?

The Grossglockner (German: Großglockner or just Glockner) is, at 3,798 meters above the Adriatic (12,461 ft), the highest mountain of Austria and the highest mountain in the Alps east of the Brenner Pass. It is part of the larger Glockner Group of the Hohe Tauern range, situated along the main ridge of the Central Eastern Alps and the Alpine divide. The Pasterze, Austria's most extended glacier, lies on the Grossglockner's eastern slope.

The characteristically pyramid-shaped peak actually consists of two pinnacles, the Grossglockner and the Kleinglockner (3,770 m (12,370 ft), from German: klein, "small"), separated by a saddle-like formation known as the Glocknerscharte.

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Gottfried Pikel

My grandfather and I, when I was 15 hiked this mountsin all the way to the lodge called Adlers Ruhe, translated Eagle's Rest.

Lynne Zeman

If Klein is German for small, is Gross German for large?

earlepg

Went by the name GROSSglockner.

Char

Thanks Majority never been so I know little about Austria

Pat Wells

Every mountain or hill I see, I look for trails to the tops. If I don't see any, I chart a path in my mind and hope to climb them at some point. This one looks like it would be fun to climb. Trying to remember the German I took. . .think "gross" means big.