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From 11 - 14 January 2024 the Ice Park Osttirol will host its 7th Ice Climbing Festival. Open to everyone and located close to the Matreier Tauernhaus in east tirol, Austria, the meeting will also host the Austrian State Championship.

On 05/04/2016 the Austrian alpinists Vittorio Messini and Matthias Wurzer made the first ascent of Südwandwächter (M5, WI4+, 600m), a new mixed climb up the South Face of Grossglockner (3798m) in Austria.

The Eispark Osttirol, a new ice climbing crag with approximately 50 artificial icefalls, has been inaugurated close to the Matreier Tauernhaus in east tirol, Austria.

In early January 2016 Vittorio Messini and Matthias Wurzer made the first ascent of El Nino (M7, 120m) a new mixed climb on Hochgasser, east tirol, Austria.

A series of new ice climbs and mixed routes have been established at a new ice climbing area called Eisarena Umbaltal, in east tirol, Austria.

Vittorio Messini and Isidor Poppeller have made the first ascent of Die Ritter der Kokosnuss up Großer Falkenstein, Austria.

On Saturday 27 July 2012 Jospeh Mayerl, the legendary alpinist from Tyrol, Austria, died aged 75 which climbing in the Lienzer Dolomites.

Figerhorn, Langschneid and Hochgasser, three ski mountaineering itineraries in the Upper Tauern, east tirol, Austria, introduced by Vittorio Messini, Mountain Guide Kals am Großglockner.