The Loreakopf, also occasionally referred to as the Loreaspitze, is a mountain in the

Lechtal Alps The Lechtal Alps () are a mountain-range in western Austria, and part of the greater Northern Limestone Alps range. Named for the river Lech which drains them north-ward into Germany, the Lechtal Alps occupy the Austrian states of Tyrol and Vorar ...

within the state of

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Geography

The mountain is located on the eastern side of the Lechtal Alps and is west of the

Fern Pass Fern Pass (elevation 1212 m) is a mountain pass in the Tyrolean Alps in Austria. It is located between the Lechtal Alps on the west and the Mieming Mountains on the east. The highest peak in Germany, the Zugspitze is only 13.5 km away to t ...

. Its summit is connected by a northern ridge to multiple peaks of the massif, concluding at the Roter Stein furthest north. The massif of the Heiterwand lies to the south, with the village of

Nassereith Nassereith is a municipality and a village in the Imst district in Tyrol, Austria and is located 11 km north of Imst Imst (; Southern Bavarian: ''Imscht'') is a town in the Austrian federal state of Tyrol. It lies on the River Inn in wes ...

situated to the southeast. __NOTOC__

History

The mountain was likely first ascended by local shepherds or hunters, however the first ''documented'' ascent took place on 19 August 1840 by Karl Sander, as part of a geological survey for the ''geognostisch-montanistischen Vereins für Tirol und Vorarlberg''.

Routes

The main route, the one also used by Sander in his 1840 ascent, starts from the Fern Pass and goes by the ''Loreahütte'' (an unstaffed

mountain hut A mountain hut is a building located at high elevation, in mountainous terrain, generally accessible only by foot, intended to provide food and shelter to mountaineering, mountaineers, climbing, climbers and Hiking, hikers. Mountain huts are us ...

) before reaching the summit via the south ridge. The maximum UIAA climbing scale grading for the rockier sections of this route do not exceed grade I, although a sure-footedness and

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is required.Heinz Groth: ''Alpenvereinsführer Lechtaler Alpen''. 3rd Ed. Bergverlag Rother, München 1981, , from page 505 (in German) There are also options to access the peak from the northwest via the ''Loreascharte'' (Lorea col).

Panorama

References

{{Reflist Mountains of Tyrol (federal state)