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Climbing routes & mountaineering tours
On the Zugspitze and in the Garmisch-Classic area
Climbing & mountaineering
For beginners, advanced climbers and seasoned pros
Around Alpspitze and Zugspitze, sport climbers and ambitious mountaineers will find challenging routes and via ferratas leading up to the summit.
Climbing for advanced and seasoned climbers
Multi-pitch routes for sport climbers
These routes are suitable for well-equipped and experienced climbers.
Alpspitz-Ferrata
Osterfelderkopf – Alpspitze – Nordwandsteig
The starting point of this demanding climbing route is the Alpspitzbahn mountain station.
- Parking: Kreuzeckbahn/Alpspitzbahn
- How to get there: Alpspitzbahn
- Duration: 4 hours
- Difficulty: demanding, not suitable for families
- Refreshment stops: Restaurant Alpspitze or Kandahar 2
Mauerläufersteig
Multi-pitch routes on Bernadeinkopf
This difficult to very difficult route starts and ends at the Alpspitzbahn mountain station.
- Parking: Kreuzeckbahn/Alpspitzbahn
- How to get there: Alpspitzbahn
- Duration: 4 hours
- Difficulty: demanding, not suitable for families
- Refreshment stops: Restaurant Alpspitze or Kandahar 2
Mountaineering tours
On and around the Zugspitze
Der Jubiläumsgrat
Spectacular ridge traverse for experienced climbers
- How to get there: Zugspitze summit: take the Cable car Zugspitze or the cogwheel train and Gletscherbahn cable car
- Destination: Alpspitzbahn mountain station
- Duration: 7–9 hours (ridge length: 5.3 kilometres)
- Difficulty: only for mountaineering experts – the tour requires a high level of endurance, concentration and surefootedness!
- Refreshment stop at the end of the route: Restaurant Alpspitze or Kandahar 2
Via Höllental to the Zugspitze summit
Most popular ascent to Germany’s highest peak
- How to get there & parking: Höllentalklamm car park or take the cogwheel train to Hammersbach
- Start: Hammersbach cogwheel train stop
- Destination: Zugspitze summit
- Return: take the Cable car Zugspitze and the cogwheel train back to Hammersbach
- Length: 9 km
- Elevation gain: 2,200 m
- Difficulty: demanding
- Refreshment stop after a successful tour: Höllentalangerhütte, Höllentalklammeingangshütte
Reintal route
In the footsteps of the first climber to Zugspitze
- Parking & how to get there: Olympia ski stadium car park in Garmisch-Partenkirchen or by local bus
- Start: Olympia ski stadium in Garmisch-Partenkirchen
- Destination: Zugspitze summit
- Length: 21 km
- Elevation gain: 2,300 m
- Difficulty: demanding
- Refreshment stop: Reintalangerhütte, Knorrhütte
Austrian Schneekar and Stopselzieher (“Cork Screw”)
The shortest and most direct ascent to the summit
- How to get there: take the cogwheel train or the Eibsee bus to Lake Eibsee
- Start: Cable car Zugspitze valley station / Lake Eibsee
- Destination: Zugspitze summit
- Length: 8 km
- Elevation gain: 2,015 m
- Difficulty: demanding
- Refreshment stop: Wiener-Neustädter Hütte
