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The Innsbrucker Hutte at 2,370m in the mist. We walked to the Bremer Hutte in the cloud and rain and didn't see much more than the rock in front of us all day.
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The Bremer Hutte at 2,411m. We set off from here to cross the border into Italy.
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The steep climb up towards the ridge, which divides Austria from Italy.
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Contemplating the glacier, Simmingferner we had to cross to reach the pass in to Italy.
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Looking back down the glacier Simmingferner and the scree field, the Bremer Hutte just visible on the other side of the valley.
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'Passports please.' At the top of the pass 2,895m; a giant cairn marking the border between Austria and Italy.
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View looking south in to Italy, the Magdeburger Hutte sitting on the ridge above the valley.
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The Magdeburger Hutte, the highest hut we stayed in on our two week trek at 2,411m.
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View looking down the valley east towards the Brenner pass, the autobahn bridge just visible at the bottom of the valley.
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View of the Feuersteinferner (or if you are Italian Vedretta di Montarso) from a ridge just below Sudl Stubenscharte at 2,860m.
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A cotton grass field down by the Magdeburger Hutte looking back up to the ride, which forms the border between Italy and Asutria.
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On route along the Tiroler Hohenweg, path 7 to the summit of WeiBwand in the distance.
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Myself standing at the summit of WeiBwand 3,016m, the highest mountain we climbed during our two week trek.
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View from the summit of WeiBwand looking north east along Gschnitztal in Austria.
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Sitting at the cross at the summit of WeiBwand, behind those couple of rocks a cliff at least a few hundred metres high dropping off to the valley below.
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Descending the steep rocky slope of WeiBand back to the Tiroler Hohenweg.
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Hiking along a ridge at 2,800m following the border between Italy, to the right and Austria to the left.
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Back at the border crossing in to Austria at Sandesjochl at 2,599m.
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A male and female Capricorn on the scree slopes descending into Sandestal towards the Austrian Tribulaunhutte (there's a hut just across the border in Italy with the same name.)
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A male Capricorn a little further down in the valley.
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The giant scree slopes leading towards the Tribulaunhutte at the head of Sandestal, our last stop for the night before hiking off the mountain and catching a bus and train back to Innsbruck.
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