Fuscherkarkopf

Fuscherkarkopf
The Fuscherkarkopf (extreme right) from Ferleiten in the Fuscher Valley
Highest point
Elevation	3,331 m (AA) (10,928 ft)
Prominence	490 m ↓ Fuscherkar Scharte
Isolation	3.53 km → Hohe Dock
Listing	Alpine mountains above 3000 m
Coordinates	47°05′59″N 12°44′41″E / 47.09972°N 12.74472°E / 47.09972; 12.74472
Geography
Fuscherkarkopf Border between Carinthia and Salzburg, Austria
Parent range	Austrian Central Alps, High Tauern, Glockner Group, centre of main Tauern chain
Geology
Mountain type(s)	calc-schist, Bratschen
Climbing
First ascent	in the 1840s by Gregor Maier

The Fuscherkarkopf, sometimes also written Fuscher-Kar-Kopf in German and formerly also called the Fuschereiskarkopf, is one of the twin peaks of a mountain in the Glockner Group in the centre of the main mountain chain (Mittleren Tauernhauptkamm) in the High Tauern, a range in the Austrian Central Alps. The mountain lies right on the border between the Austrian states of Salzburg and Carinthia. The main peak is 3,331 metres high, but the northwest summit is only 3,252 metres high. The two peaks are about 500 metres apart and linked by a curved firn-covered ridge. Further sharp, prominent ridges run away to the northwest and west, forming the main crest of the Tauern. To the southwest the Heiligenblut Open Face (Heiligenbluter Freiwand) branches off, a mighty side ridge that starts as the southeast ridge (Südostgrat) at the Fuscherkarkopf. The northwest summit has a great, 650-metre-high (2,130 ft) West Face (Westwand), that used to be covered with firn, but today is covered with loose rock slabs. The mountain is easy to reach from the Hofmanns Hut over the southwest ridge (Südwestgrat) and offers a good view of the Großglockner and the Pasterze. The peak was first climbed in the 1840s by the hunter, Gregor Maier, known as Badhans, from Fusch.^[1]