Ötztal Alps

The Ötztal Alps are a vast, heavily glaciated group in the central Eastern Alps, between the upper Inn country and South Tyrol. Their highest summit, the Wildspitze, reaches 3,768 metres. Farther south the Alpine main crest runs along the Schnals ridge, where the Weißkugel rises almost as high on the boundary between northern and southern Tyrol. Few ranges in the Eastern Alps contain so broad an area above three thousand metres, where ice and bare rock dominate the upper slopes.