Grossglockner – Austria
The Grossglockner or just Glockner is, at 3,798 meters above the Adriatic 12,461 ft, the highest mountain in Austria and the highest mountain in the Alps east of the Brenner Pass. It is part of the larger Glockner Group of the Hohe Tauern range, positioned along the main ridge of the Central Eastern Alps and the Alpine separate. The Pasterze, Austria's most elongated glacier, lies on the Grossglockner's eastern slope. The distinguishing pyramid-shaped peak actually comprises two pinnacles, the Grossglockner and the Kleinglockner separated by the Glocknerscharte.
The name Glocknerer is first documented in a 1561 map designed by the Viennese cartographer Wolfgang Lazarus. The denotation Glogger is mentioned in a 1583 description of the Tyrolean Kals legal district, then referring to the whole ridge south of the Alpine main chain. In the 1760s, the Atlas Tyrolensis listed a Glockner Berg, the prefix Gross- is not mentioned before the first expedition in 1799.