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| | Peakbagger.com - Ascent of Grossglockner on 1993-08-05 |
 | | The parking garage/visitor center complex was on a rocky slope a few hundred feet over the huge Pasterzenkees Glacier, and on the opposite side rose the huge pinnacle of the Grossglockner, at 3797 meters (12,457 feet) the highest mountain in Austria. |
 | | First, at the point in the snow path where Jakob had lost his crampon, one of my feet punched through into a small crevasse--I wasn't harmed, and no more of me went in, but it was still frightening, and embarrassing, coming at the place I had earlier warned Jakob about. |
 | | Second, after crossing the Pasterzenkees glacier once off the Grossglockner, I couldn't find the path that led up the short, steep slope to the Hoffmannshutte, so I wound up on steep, slippery slabs of rock that weren't easy to climb at all. |
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