After eight hours Hermann Göring had reached the Watz-
mann’s summit. As his little party descended, he rejoiced in the
view of the König See, surrounded by mountains bathed in the
sunset’s glow and crisscrossed by the wakes of two white motor
boats. Then he set off for the main climbing adventure in the
Tyrol, overlooking the Italian frontier:
. We strolled through Lienz and purchased
what we needed. Lienz is very well placed as a starting
point for the Dolomites, the Schober Group and Kals;
a pretty little town in the Puster Valley. Like all towns
in the southern Tyrol it is a garrison for the Imperial
Rifles (Kaiserjäger)....On the next day they climbed to the Karlsbad Hut at , me-
ters (, feet) in the Dolomites.
. We had a lively talk about mountains, Al-
pine Club, guides, huts and the Bohemian question.... A wonderful sight: The little hut nestles between
two dark green lakes in the middle of the Laserzkar,
framed by the sheer rockfaces of the Lienz dolomites.
A desolate mountain wilderness extended beyond it,
with the proud twin peaks of the “Wild Sander.”...
Tomorrow we plan to climb it. As the two peaks are
joined by a narrow ridge, we want if possible to climb
both.
The next day they struggled onward to the ninety-three-
hundred-foot summit.
.... After half an hour’s rest we put on the
forty-meter rope and began the traverse of the south
face of the Seekofel. This is endless, as it goes round
the whole mountain. The ledge we were on was very