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Ortler

American  
[awrt-ler] / ˈɔrt lər /

noun

  1. a range of the Alps in N Italy.

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


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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.

From BBC Nov. 2, 2025

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.

From The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister by Hillern, Wilhelmine von

Pastor Ortler was still the same, preaching to his little flock, and giving freely of his means, his wife only slightly older.

From Scenes in Switzerland by American Tract Society

Monte Adamello and the Ortler, the cleft of the Brenner, and the sharp peaks of the Venetian Alps are all distinctly visible.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes

Long after night had set in, a ghastly gleam rested upon the summit of the Ortler, while the peaks in front deepened to a dusky neutral tint, the more distant ones being lost in gloom.

From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John

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