Cold Mountain ()Cold Mountain (''Mrzla gora'') on Geopedia.si
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in the

Kamnik Alps Kamnik (; ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, pp. 26–27. or ''Stein in Oberkrain'') is the List of cities and towns in Slovenia, ninth-l ...

. Cold Mountain rises over three valleys: the Logar Valley, the

Matk Cirque The Matk Cirque (), in older sources also the Jezera Valley (''dolina Jezera'') is an Alpine glacial valley in Slovenia. Geography The Matk Cirque lies in the upper catchment area of the Savinja River in the Kamnik–Savinja Alps of Slovenia. T ...

(), and the Vellach Combe (, ). It is rarely visited because it is relatively difficult to ascend with many exposed areas. The border with

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runs along the northern and western side, and until 1967 it was difficult to access because of political problems. Its first climbers had problems scaling it. In 1876, Robert von Lendenfeld and a guide named Matijevec from

Luče Luče (; sometimes ''Luče ob Savinji'', ) is the largest settlement and the centre of the Municipality of Luče in northern Slovenia. It belongs to the traditional region of Styria and is now included in the Savinja Statistical Region. Geography ...

reached the western peak and they descended, thinking they had reached the highest peak. In 1877,

Karl Blodig Karl Blodig (16 October 1859 – 7 September 1956) was an Austrian mountaineer, optician, and writer. Blodig was the first to successfully climb all Alpine peaks of over 4000 meters, completing his final summit around 1911. He wrote about these c ...

(the first to climb every peak over in

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) tried two times, but quit due to weather well below the top. In the same year Johannes Frischauf, Piskernik, and Matek finally conquered the top. The Frischauf Lodge on Okrešelj is named after him.

Routes

* 3½h from the Frischauf Lodge at Okrešelj () * 4½h from the

Logar Sisters Lodge Logar may refer to: Geography * Logar Province, Afghanistan * Logar River in Afghanistan * Logar Valley (Slovenia) People * Eva Logar (born 1991), Slovenian ski jumper * Lojze Logar (1944–2014), Slovenian artist * Mihovil Logar (1902–1998), ...

() * 5½ from the

Czech Lodge at Spodnje Ravni The Czech Lodge at Spodnje Ravni (; ) is a mountain hut, mountain hostel that stands on the Spodnje Ravni Cirque above the Ravne Combe () in Slovenia, below the northern part of Grintovec, Mount Grintovec and the Long Ridge (). It is named after ...

() * 5½ from Vellach through the Vellach Combe

References

* Slovenska planinska pot, Planinski vodnik, PZS, 2012, Milenko Arnejšek - Prle, Andraž Poljanec

External links

Opis poti na Mrzlo goro iz Matkovega kota (Description of the Route to Cold Mountain from the Matk Cirque)

Cold Mountain on hribi.net Route Description and Photos
Mountains of the Kamnik–Savinja Alps Mountains of Styria (Slovenia) Two-thousanders of Slovenia {{Slovenia-geo-stub