Carinthia – Austria’s sunny south. Three thousand metre-high mountain tops, gentle crests, smooth hilltops, wide plateaus – mountains of all sizes, interspersed with an endless number of stunning bathing lakes under the southern sun.
No matter what direction you look in Carinthia, towering peaks are feature of the landscape everywhere.
Austria’s highest peak, the Grossglockner (3,798 m), and its icy train, the Pasterze, rule this alpine scenery of 3,000 metre high mountains. The Hochalmspitze (3,360 m), the Tauern Queen, is one of the architectural beauties in the Eastern Alps, and all around is the Hohe Tauern National Park. Within sight, a further 120 peaks over 3,000 metres and more than 40 glaciers in alpine levels woo ambitious nature lovers with stamina. The Karawanken Range, Carnic Alps and Gail Valley Alps as far as the Lienz Dolomites and the 1,300 metre high Hochstadel north face, the highest rock face in Austria, tempt you to cross-border hike in a high-alpine area – enjoy a landscape of superlatives.
Trekking – from one place to another. In rhythm with nature and looking it in the eye. This is the magic to which more and more people are yielding. In Nepal, in New Zealand, or on the road to Santiago. And in the Hohe Tauern too! From refuge hut to refuge hut, past mountain lakes and tarns, waterfalls and glaciers, and up to high passes. Time and again in the valleys and mountains new miniature worlds will reveal themselves before your very eyes.
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“Seven Summits”? This phrase makes tacit reference to the highest summits of the seven continents. Don’t worry though; we don’t intend to climb Mount Everest! But we have selected seven terrific target summits for you, all in the Hohe Tauern National Park. We cordially invite you to an unforgettable expedition across the entire National Park!
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Off the prepared pistes another adventure begins: if you really want to feel the untouched landscape up close, you had better put the skins on your touring skis and conquer the Carinthian winter step by step. Only here, far away from the hustle and bustle, with nothing but the mountain and the sky, will you experience this time of the year at its most beautiful.
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