Area Tennengebirge

Mountains with the world's largest ice cave

Petr Liška
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Inserted: 28.04.2019
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Tennengebirge is such a smaller and lesser known „brother“ of the surrounding limestone massifs of Dachstein and Hochkönig. The highest peak is Raucheck (2,431 m asl). It is basically a large deserted limestone plateau with peaks along the edges. The mountains are famous for the largest ice cave in the world, the Eisriesenwelt

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