Hintere Brandjochspitze

The Hintere Brandjochspitze (2,599 m (AA)) is a summit roughly 200 metres northwest of the Vordere Brandjochspitze in the Nordkette range above Innsbruck. It rises above its "forward" neighbour by around 40 metres.

Hintere Brandjochspitze
Left: the Hintere Brandjochspitze; right: the Hohe Warte, Kleiner Solstein and Großer Solstein. Taken from the Reither Spitze (from the NNW)
Highest point
Elevation	2,599 m (AA) (8,527 ft)
Isolation	1.07 km (0.66 mi)
Coordinates	47°18′11″N 11°20′21″E
Geography
Hintere Brandjochspitze Northwest of Innsbruck, Tyrol
Parent range	Nordkette, Karwendel
Geology
Age of rock	Triassic
Mountain type	Rock summit
Type of rock	Wetterstein limestone
Climbing
First ascent	In 1870 by Hermann v. Barth
Normal route	Short trackless climb from the Vorderen Brandjochspitze at climbing grade UIAA I

The summit may be reached in 20 minutes from the Vordere Brandjochspitze at climbing grade UIAA I through a gully left of the arête. A more difficult route runs along the western arête (grade III-) from the Hohe Warte. Other routes along the northern Hippengrat (UIAA IV) from the Hippenspitze (2,388 m) and from the northwest (UIAA IV) are rarely used.

Literature

• Klier, Heinrich; März, Fritz (1978), Alpine Club Guide Karwendelgebirge (in German) (11 ed.), Munich: Bergverlag Rudolf Rother, ISBN 3-7633-1208-0 (Hippengrat, northwest route)
• Klier, Walter (1996), Alpine Club Guide Karwendel alpin (in German) (14 ed.), Munich: Bergverlag Rudolf Rother, ISBN 3-7633-1121-1 (normal route, west arête)