Ortler

[awrt-ler]

noun

1. a range of the Alps in N Italy.

2. the highest peak of this range. 12,802 feet (3,902 meters).

Example Sentences

The mountaineers, travelling in separate groups, were scaling Cima Vertana in the Ortler Alps at around 16:00 local time on Saturday when the fast-moving snow hit.

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Messner envisioned the museum emerging from the mountain in three places: two windows looking out toward the peaks of Peitlerkofel and Heiligkreuzkofel, and a balcony facing Ortler and South Tyrol.

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"In the Ortler Alps," he replied.

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To the left was the great range of the Ortler Alps, with the Ortler Spitze rising like a white dome above them all.

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Light--light, of which the eye might take its fill--across to the invisible distance and to where the great Ortler peak seemed wrapped in sleep and dreams.

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