Trekking in the Zillertal Alps: The Zillertal Rucksack Route - Softcover

Hartley, Allan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852843705 ISBN 13: 9781852843700

Publisher: Cicerone Press, 2003

Synopsis

Guidebook to trekking the Zillertal Rucksack Route, which traverses the very best of the range located in the Austrian Tyrol spanning the Italy / Austria border. The Zillertal embraces stunning green valleys headed by scores of shapely peaks of rock and snow and its beauty cannot be overstated, with its superb scenery and excellent huts. This guide describes the classic Zillertal Rucksack Route, which traverses the very best of the range. It links together eight huts along good tracks without having to cross glaciers, providing a continuous tour of around ten to twelve days. En route the tour provides ample opportunity to climb some of the peaks adjacent to the huts. The route is ideal for groups of mixed ability and as a venue for that first alpine season as it avoids having to contend with the demands of the higher mountains of the western Alps. Whatever your aspirations the Zillertal will not disappoint you.

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About the Author

A engineer by profession, Allan Hartley has spent the majority of his working life overseas engaged on major construction projects. Throughout this time, however, he has maintained his close links with Austria, which he discovered totally by accident in the early 1970s in respite from atrocious weather conditions in the higher mountains of the western Alps. He maintains that Austria and the Dolomites of neighbouring Italy remain one of mountaineering's best-kept secrets, with their heady mix of superb scenery, good huts and first-class food, and that they are areas better suited to the average mountaineer than the higher mountains to the west. In addition to Austria, Allan has climbed extensively throughout the Alps, in east Africa, the Falkland Islands and the Greater Ranges in Nepal and Pakistan, as well as in lesser-known areas such as the Zagros mountains of Iran and, more recently, the Hajr mountains of the Arabian peninsula. Not surprisingly, Allan is a long-term member of the Austrian Alpine Club, as well of the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild, an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society and a holder of the International Mountain Leaders Award. When not abroad, his home is on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cicerone Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1852843705
• ISBN 13: 9781852843700
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128