Großer Rettenstein map

Großer Rettenstein

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2 366 m

Elevation

Elevation is the altitude of a place
above sea level.

681 m

Prominence

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

Proportional Prominence 1 200 m

About

The Großer Rettenstein is a mountain with multiple peaks in the Kitzbühel Alps in Austria. The main summit reaches a height of 2,362 m (AA)

Although not the highest mountain in the Kitzbühel Alps (that honour goes to the Kreuzjoch at 2,558 m above sea level (AA)), the Großer Rettenstein is the most striking in this range of otherwise gentle grass-covered mountains. It also has a mighty, craggy, summit block made of limestone, four hundred metres high, that stands atop base of grauwacke and primary rock (Urgestein - quartz phyllite). The Rettenstein is the dominating peak of the Spertental valley. Its isolated location also makes the summit an outstanding viewing point and it is therefore a popular destination. To the north the Rettenstein sends a long ridge out to the Spiessnägel, that separates the oberer Grund and unterer Grund.

There's a demanding alpine trail (T5) leading to the summit.

By elevation Großer Rettenstein is

# 21 out of 426 in Bezirk Kitzbühel
# 22 out of 463 in the Kitzbühel Alps

By prominence Großer Rettenstein is

# 53 out of 5947 in Tyrol
# 12 out of 1291 in Zell am See
# 7 out of 426 in Bezirk Kitzbühel
# 23 out of 3018 in Salzburg
# 6 out of 691 in the Tyrol Schistose Alps
# 6 out of 463 in the Kitzbühel Alps

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