Ortler
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Highest mountain in the Eastern Alps, situated in the Southern Tyrol.
Commonly known as the "König Ortler" ("King Ortler"), it lay in the Austrian Southern Tyrol until 1919, since when it has lain in Italian territory. It ends at the village of Gomagoi, and separates the valleys of Trafoi and Sulden (where Schenker spent the summer of 1911). In 1913 Schenker wrote: "In a seldom more favorable, utterly incomparable atmosphere of nature, a magnificent view of the Ortler group and the Ötztaler Alps" (diary, August 17, 1913). He wrote of it, too, when spending the summer in Karerpass in 1910, and also in his summer diaries for 1911 and 1914.
During World War I the Ortler Alps provided one of the main battlegrounds of German and Italian troops.