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Grande Mèsule

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3 480 m

Elevation

Elevation is the altitude of a place
above sea level.

460 m

Prominence

Peak’s prominence is the least
vertical to be covered to get from the
summit to any other higher terrain.

Proportional Prominence 2 454 m

Glacier

A mountain with a glacier on the crests and / or slopes.

About

The Große Möseler (Italian: Grande Mèsule), also called the Mösele, is a mountain, 3,480 m (AA), and thus the second highest peak in the Zillertal Alps after the Hochfeiler (3,509 m). It lies on the Zillertal main ridge which forms the border here between the Austrian state of Tyrol and the Italian province of South Tyrol. Its great size makes it the dominant mountain in the area. Seen from the northwest it appears like a firn-covered dome; but from the northeast as a regularly shaped cone of rock. Prominent arêtes radiate from the peak to the northwest, east and south. The mountain is easily ascended from the Furtschaglhaus and is often visited as a result. It was first climbed on 16 June 1865 by G. H. Fox, Douglas William Freshfield and Francis Fox Tuckett with mountain guides, François Devouassoud from Chamonix and Peter Michel from Grindelwald, as well as two unknown bearers.

There's a difficult alpine trail (T6) leading to the summit.

By elevation Grande Mèsule is

# 17 out of 3311 in the Western Tauern Alps
# 47 out of 23502 in Austria
# 50 out of 3872 in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
# 34 out of 2178 in South Tyrol
# 46 out of 5947 in Tyrol
# 2 out of 885 in Bezirk Schwaz
# 2 out of 802 in the Zillertal Alps

By prominence Grande Mèsule is

# 38 out of 3311 in the Western Tauern Alps
# 94 out of 3872 in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
# 52 out of 2178 in South Tyrol
# 24 out of 885 in Bezirk Schwaz
# 11 out of 802 in the Zillertal Alps

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