Patteriol Explained

Patteriol
Map:	Alps
Location:	Tyrol, Austria
Coordinates:	47.0442°N 10.1872°W
Elevation M:	3056
Elevation Ref:	^[1]
Prominence M:	463
Prominence Ref:	^[2]
Range:	Verwall Alps
Listing:	Alpine mountains above 3000 m
First Ascent:	ca. 1860
Normal Route:	UIAA grade II

The Patteriol is a mountain in the Verwall Alps in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It has an elevation of . (In old literature the elevation is stated higher: 10037feet.^{[3] [4]} Patteriol is sometimes called "Matterhorn of Verwall" because of its shape.^[5]

Aside from the main summit, the Patteriol has some more summits:

• South summit (also called Pfeilerkopf, 2,884 m)
• Horn (3,003 m)
• Kleiner Patteriol (2,590 m)

Ascents

The ascent on normal route from the alpine club hut Konstanzer Hütte at 1688 m to the summit takes approximately 4½^[6] to 5^[7] hours and difficulty grade is II^{[6] [5]} on UIAA climbing scale. The first ascensionists of the summit were around the year 1860 two geodesists, three hunters and a soldier (a "Kaiserjäger").^[6]

Additionally there are rock climbing routes. Some of them are:^[5]

• North-east ridge, UIAA grade mostly III, two spots IV− and V
• East pillar, grade IV+
• South pillar, grade IV+

References

1. http://www.bielefeldt.de/hoheberged4K.htm Die höchsten Berge der Welt
2. Web site: Patteriol - Peakvisor. peakvisor.com. 29 May 2020.
3. Book: Coolidge, William Augustus Brevoort. The Alps in Nature and History. 1908. 341. Methuen. en.
4. Alps.
5. Beate Leifert & Mirjam Frede: Alpinvielfalt abseits vom Skizirkus – 125 Jahre Konstanzer Hütte. In: DAV Panorama, 1/2011, pages 72–75, PDF, 463 KiB
6. Peter Pindur, Roland Luzian, Andreas Weiskopf: Verwallgruppe. Alpenvereinsführer, 10th edition, Bergverlag Rother, Munich 2005, pages 155–155–156,
7. verwall.de: Konstanzer Hütte, accessed 2014-12-09.