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Christopher Perhab
Alpine climbing allows to experience the wild beauty of the alpine Dachstein mountains. Many tours additionally require safe handling of crampons and ice axe and knowledge and experience on the glacier during the approach and descent.
Some milestones in the technical climbing development of the Dachstein massif
In 1889, the nimbus of non-climbability was broken with the fiercely courted first ascent of the south walls in the Mitterspitze area. This was a bold and very important pioneering achievement, when the alpinists in the Alps were only at the beginning of the age of climbing.
- 1901 Dachstein south wall - Pichlweg by Eduard Pichl, Gams and Zimmerer
- 1909 Dachstein south wall - Steinerweg by the Brothers Steiner. The “Steinerweg” is still one of the really big, classic climbs in the Limestone Alps.
- 1929 - "Dirndl southern edge" by Kurt Maix and Willi Höfler
- 1934 - "Torstein Südverschneidung" by Raimund Schinko and Adolf Bischofberger
- 1946 - "Koppenkarstein south-east Pfeiler" by Hubert Peterka and Fritz Proksch
- 1947 "Türlspitze" south wall by Raimund Otte and Otto Vikas
- 1953 "Koppenkarstein south east wall red firewall" by Raimund Otte and Otto Stiegler
- 1963 "Direttissima" by the local mountain guides Peter Perner, Fritz und Klaus Walcher (6 A0, rp. 7).
- 1960 Türlspitz south wall "Narrenriss" 6 A3 by Willi Scherübl and Bernhard Stücklschweiger
- 1967 Dachstein south wall - "Dach Direttissima" by Leo Schlömmer and Peter Perner
- 1973 Lower Windhole - "Ypsilon" by Klaus Hoi and Hugo Stelzig
- 1976 Lower Windhole - "Große Verschneidung" by Klaus Hoi und Hugo Stelzig
- 1980s Climax and end of the classic development with tours like "Indirect", "Heaven and Hell" or "Serpentine", "10 after 5" and the impossible.
May every visitor be happy in their own way in the Dachstein slabs.
Friedrich Simony (1813 – 1896)
