Mühlsturzhörner

The Mühlsturzhörner are two summits in the Reiter Alm in the Berchtesgaden Alps in the Upper Bavarian county of Berchtesgadener Land. The Großes Mühlsturzhorn is 2,234 m above sea level (NHN) and its top is around 300 metres southeast of the Stadelhorn, not far from the border between Bavaria and Salzburg in Austria. The Kleines Mühlsturzhorn is located 280 metres east-northeast and has a height of 2,141 m above NHN.

Großes Mühlsturzhorn
The Großes Mühlsturzhorn, Kleines Mühlsturzhorn, Grundübelhörner and Knittelhorn (from the left)
Highest point
Elevation2,234 m above sea level (NHN) (7,329 ft)
Coordinates47°35′26″N 12°47′50″E 
Geography
Großes Mühlsturzhorn
Parent rangeReiter Alm, Berchtesgaden Alps
Climbing
Normal routeFrom the Stadelhorn (II)
Kleines Mühlsturzhorn
Highest point
Elevation2,141 m above sea level (NHN) (7,024 ft)
Coordinates47°35′29″N 12°48′06″E 
Geography
Parent rangeReiter Alm, Berchtesgadener Alpen
Climbing
Normal routeEastern arête from the Grundübelscharte gap (II)

Rockfall

On 8 September 1999, 250,000 m3 (330,000 cu yd) of rock broke off in the summit area of the Kleines Mühlsturzhorn and crashed into the Klausbach valley.

Alpinism

The unmarked normal route to the Großes Mühlsturzhorn runs from the northwest via the Mayrbergscharte gap and the Stadelhorn (grade II). There are other unmarked ascents from the north via the Mühlsturzkar (II) and up the south face (II).

Well known climbing tours are the Alte Südkante (grade VII-, first climbed in 1930 by Huber and Mitterer) and the Direkte Südkante (VI/A1 or VIII-, first achieved in 1936 by Anderl Hinterstoißer and Toni Kurz shortly before Kurz's death on the north face of the Eiger).

Heinrich Carl Schubert:
Blick auf das Mühlsteinhorn

Literature
  • Bernhard Kühnhauser: Alpenvereinsführer Berchtesgadener Alpen mit Hochkönig. Bergverlag Rother, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7633-1127-9, pp. 175–176, 460–463.
  • Walter Pause, Jürgen Winkler: Im extremen Fels – 100 Kletterführen in den Alpen. BLV-Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich, 1977, ISBN 3-405-11742-9.
  • Richard Goedeke: Kletterführer Bayerische Alpen, Nordtirol. Bergverlag Rother, Munich, 2009, ISBN 978-3-7633-3016-4, pp. 160–173 (preview, p. 160, at Google Books)
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