The Patteriol is a mountain in the

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Tyrol Tyrol ( ; historically the Tyrole; ; ) is a historical region in the Alps of Northern Italy and western Austria. The area was historically the core of the County of Tyrol, part of the Holy Roman Empire, Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary, f ...

. It has an elevation of . (In old literature the elevation is stated higher: . Patteriol is sometimes called "

Matterhorn The , ; ; ; or ; ; . is a mountain of the Alps, straddling the Main chain of the Alps, main watershed and border between Italy and Switzerland. It is a large, near-symmetric pyramidal peak in the extended Monte Rosa area of the Pennine Alps, ...

of Verwall" because of its shape.Beate Leifert & Mirjam Frede: ''Alpinvielfalt abseits vom Skizirkus – 125 Jahre Konstanzer Hütte''. In: ''DAV Panorama'', 1/2011, pages 72–75
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463 KiB Aside from the main summit, the Patteriol has some more summits: * South summit (also called ''Pfeilerkopf'', 2,884 m) * Horn (3,003 m) * Kleiner Patteriol (2,590 m)

Ascents

The ascent on normal route from the

alpine club hut Alpine club huts () or simply club huts (''Clubhütten'') form the majority of the over 1,300 mountain huts in the Alps and are maintained by branches, or sections, of the various Alpine clubs. Although the usual English translation of ''Hütte'' i ...

Konstanzer Hütte at 1688 m to the summit takes approximately 4½Peter Pindur, Roland Luzian, Andreas Weiskopf: ''Verwallgruppe''. Alpenvereinsführer, 10th edition, Bergverlag Rother, Munich 2005, pages 155–155–156, to 5verwall.de:
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', accessed 2014-12-09. hours and difficulty grade is II on UIAA climbing scale. The first ascensionists of the summit were around the year 1860 two geodesists, three hunters and a soldier (a "

Kaiserjäger The ''Kaiserjäger'' (officially designated by the Imperial and Royal (''k.u.k.'') military administration as the ''Tiroler Jäger-Regimenter'' or "Tyrolean Rifle Regiments"), were formed in 1895 as four normal infantry regiments within the Comm ...

"). Additionally there are rock climbing routes. Some of them are: * North-east ridge, UIAA grade mostly III, two spots IV− and V * East pillar, grade IV+ * South pillar, grade IV+

References

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