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The Fallenbacherspitze (also: Fallenbacher Spitze, Fallenbacher-Spitze) in the Austrian state of
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is a 2,723-metre-high rock summit 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 ...
. Due to its remoteness and lack of signed routes, the mountain is not climbed very often.


Location and area

The Fallenbacherspitze lies in the middle of the Lechtal Alps, about eight kilometres south of
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. Apart from its main summit (2,723 m), the massif has another, clearly lower summit on the southeast ridge, the ''Gamskarlespitze'' (2,469 m). It is bounded to the east and south by the ''Alperschontal'' valley, that runs from the ''Madau''. To the southwest it continues via the wind gap of ''Gamskarscharte'' and the ''Fallenbacher Turm'' (2,704 m) to the Feuerspitze (2,852 m). The cirque of ''Das Fallenbacher Kar'' lies on the west flank of the mountain and leads to the ''Mittelrücken'' (2,625 m) and the Holzgauer Wetterspitze (2,895 m). In the valley of ''Fallenbacher Tal'' north of the mountain lies a small lake, the ''Fallenbacher See''. Further away from the Fallenbacherspitze lies the Vorderseespitze (2,889 m) to the southwest and the Freispitze (2,884 m) to the east, on the other side of the ''Alperschontal''. In summary, several of the largest and most striking summits of the Lechtal Alps are concentrated within a radius of less than 3 kilometres around the Fallenbacherspitze.


Bases and tours

The Fallenbacherspitze is climbed relatively rarely. Suitable bases for an ascent are Bach or Madau. The simplest, albeit unsigned, route runs from the ''Alperschontal'' via the ''Gamskarle'' and the southwest ridge to the plateau-like summit. Its difficulty is mainly level I, in one place it reaches level II on the UIAA scale.


Literature and map

*Dieter Seibert: '' Alpine Club Guide Lechtaler Alpen'', Munich, 2002, {{ISBN, 3-7633-1268-4 *Alpine Club Map 1:25.000, Sheet 3/3, ''Lechtaler Alpen, Parseierspitze'' Mountains of Tyrol (federal state) Two-thousanders of Austria Lechtal Alps Mountains of the Alps