Picturesque landscape of glaciation around the 3474-meter-high Ruderhofspitze in the Stubai Alps. The Stubai Alps (Stubaier Alpen in German) owe their name to the eponymous valley; Stubaital. Neustift im Stubaital, Tyrol, Austria.
Picturesque landscape of glaciation around the 3474-meter-high Ruderhofspitze in the Stubai Alps. The Stubai Alps (Stubaier Alpen in German) owe their name to the eponymous valley; Stubaital. Neustift im Stubaital, Tyrol, Austria.
Northern side of the Wilder Freiger (elevation: 3418 meters) and a little further away to the right, the Wilder Pfaff (elevation: 3456 meters) and the Zuckerhütl (elevation: 3507 meters). The summits of the Wilder Freiger and the Wilder Pfaff are on the border between Austria and the region of Trentino-Alto Adige in Italy (to the south). Neustift im Stubaital, Tyrol, Austria.
Zuckerhütl (elevation: 3507 meters), highest summit in the Stubai Alps with the large Sulzenauferner Glacier and its meltwater feeding into Sulzenau Lake (elevation: aprroximately 2480 meters). Neustift im Stubaital, Tyrol, Austria.
Sulzenau Lake with the Sulzenauferner Glacier's terminus on the northern side of the Zuckerhütl Peak. Sulzenau Lake is a glacial lake (or tarn); a mountain lake formed in a depression excavated by a glacier and filled with snowmelt. Stubai Alps, Tyrol, Austria.
The Falbesoner Valley is a picturesque and wild valley upstream of the eponymous waterfall. The valley has the Ruderhofspitze (elevation: 3474 meters) for background. The area is a hiker’s paradise. Stubai Alps, Tyrol, Austria.
The New Regensburger Hut is a mountain hut at an elevation of 2286 meters above sea level upstream of the magnificent Falbesoner Falls, it is quite spectacular from the late spring until the mid-summer when it is fed by the glaciers’ snowmelt. It cascades down some 140 meters. Stubai Alps, Tyrol, Austria.
Neustift im Stubaital in the Stubai Valley with the Zuckerhütl (elevation: 3507 meters) in the distance. Tyrol, Austria.
The Church of St. Pankratius in Telfes. In the distance, the Schlicker Seespitze (elevation: 2804 meters) in the Kalkkögel Massif. Stubai Valley, Tyrol, Austria.
The A13 Brenner Autobahn on the Europa Bridge. Schönberg im Stubaital, Tyrol, Austria.
The Europa Bridge with the Stubai Valley and the Stubai Alps' highest summit (Zuckerhütl) in the distance. Schönberg im Stubaital, Tyrol, Austria.
The lofty Europa Bridge, 190 meters above the Sill River. Schönberg im Stubaital, Tyrol, Austria.