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4 unusual facts about Hochschwab


Styrian Seeberg Pass

Styrian Seeberg Pass (also the Aflenzer Seeberg) (el. 1253 m.) is a high mountain pass in the Austrian Alps, located in the Bundesland of Styria, east of the Hochschwab Mountains.

Styrian-Lower Austrian Limestone Alps

The high Alpine, limestone massifs of the Hochschwab, Veitsch, Schneealpe, Rax and Schneeberg belong to it as do the limestone prealps to the north as far as the Flysch zone.

The largest spring is the Kläfferquelle at the foot of the Hochschwab, in Styrian Salza valley.

Walter Mittelholzer

He died in 1937 in a climbing accident on an expedition in the Hochschwab massive in Styria, Austria.



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