The Tuxeck (or Tuxegg) is a
[ BEV 1:50000 ] high mountain in the
Kaisergebirge range in the Austrian state of
Tyrol
Tyrol (; historically the Tyrole; de-AT, Tirol ; it, Tirolo) is a historical region in the Alps - in Northern Italy and western Austria. The area was historically the core of the County of Tyrol, part of the Holy Roman Empire, Austrian Emp ...
. It lies south of the
Treffauer
At , the Treffauer is the third highest mountain in the Kaisergebirge range of the Alps. BEV 1:5000www.austrianmap.at/ref> It lies in the Austrian state of Tyrol.
Location
The Treffauer rises south of the main ridge and is therefore the most s ...
and is also called the ''Ellmauer Hochkaiser''.
Routes
A signed trail to the top runs from the ''Jägerwirt'' inn near
Scheffau from the southwest. Only the last 10 m to the summit are
UIAA
The International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation, commonly known by its French name Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme (UIAA, lit. ''International Union of Alpine Clubs''), was founded in August 1932 in Chamonix, France ...
climbing grade
In rock climbing, mountaineering, and other climbing disciplines, climbers give a grade to a climbing route or boulder problem, intended to describe concisely the difficulty and danger of climbing it. Different types of climbing (such as spo ...
III (alleviated by a few iron rings, but steep and exposed), the rest is no more difficult than grade I, but there is a danger of falling rocks.
Another climb to the summit runs approaches from the east, from the
Grutten Hut along the ''Schutterfeldköpfe''. This formerly signed ascent is no longer maintained, however, and is crumbly and prone to rock falls (as at 2005).
There is also a signed crossing between the Tuxeck and the Treffauer. This is the route chosen by J. Enzensperger and H. Hahn on 14 August 1897 when they became the first climbers to conquer the Tuxeck.
[Höfler, Piepenstock, ''Alpenvereinsführer Kaisergebirge alpin'', p. 108-110]
It is hard to find more difficult
climbing routes here. The southern arête (grade IV) is hardly ever used and is only of historic interest;
other climbs like those from the southwest (II) or the south face (II) are unimportant.
References
Literature
* {{Citation, author= Horst Höfler , author2= Jan Piepenstock, editor= Deutscher Alpenverein, editor-link= Deutscher Alpenverein, editor2= Österreichischer Alpenverein, editor2-link= Österreichischer Alpenverein, editor3= Alpenverein Südtirol, editor3-link= Alpenverein Südtirol , title= Alpenvereinsführer Kaisergebirge alpin: Alle Routen für Wanderer und Bergsteiger , publisher=Rother , location=München , year=2006 , pages= 108–110, isbn= 978-3-7633-1257-3, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a4nGC1lZshgC&dq=Tuxegg&pg=PA97 , access-date=2010-10-30
Mountains of the Alps
Mountains of Tyrol (federal state)
Two-thousanders of Austria
Kaiser Mountains