Collalto

Collalto is located on the Italian-Austrian border.

It is situated on the border of Italy and Austria, but its summit completely belongs to South Tyrolean territory. With 3,436 m the Collalto is the highest mountain of the Vedrette di Ries. Moreover the Collalto is characterised by its shapely form and its famous north face.

The first ascent of this mountain dates back to 1868, when K. Hoffmann and V. Kaltendorff as well as the alpine guides G. Weiß and H. Oberarzbacher scaled this mountain for the first time.

So far the Collalto has claimed several victims, as the two normal paths leading on the top of this mountain has often been undervalued. One of these paths begins at the Rifugio Collalto (2,276 m) and leads via Dosso Girgio to the north west chine and the summit of the Collalto.