Venediger Group

The Venediger Group forms the western part of the main crest of the High Tauern, in the central Eastern Alps. Its highest peak, the Großvenediger, rises to 3,657 metres above a landscape of ice and rock. The mountains extend across the lands of Salzburg and Tyrol and into South Tyrol, with their greatest extent in East Tyrol. More heavily glaciated than the other groups of the High Tauern, the range sends ridges down towards the valleys on either side of the Alpine crest.