Go trekking in the Stubai Alps with a Cicerone guidebook

• Location
• Description
• Contents
• Introduction
• Sample Route
• Maps
• Further Reading
• Video / Audio

Further Reading

Hut Directory

Alpenvereinshutten: Volume 1 Ostalpen: Deutschland, Oesterreich, Sudtyrol OeAV, AVS and DAV Bergverlag Rother (2005)
A comprehensive listing of all the mountain huts in the Eastern Alps, with contact information, opening hours, GPS coordinates and much more.

Maps and Guide Books

The following maps are required for the Stubai Rucksack Route and Stubai Glacier Tour. The maps are published by the Austrian Alpine Club and available from the UK Section of the Austrian Alpine Club.

Maps

Alpenvereinskarte
Sheet 31/1 Stubai Alpen: Hoch Stubai (1:25,000)
Sheet 31/2 Stubai Alpen: Sellrain (1:25,000)

Also recommended because they cover the complete region at a glance and are available from major map retailers:
Freytag & Berndt Wanderkarte: Sheet 24 Stubaieralpen (1:100,000)
Kopmpass Wanderkarte: Sheet 83 Stubai Alpen: Serleskamm (1:50,000)
Verlag W Mayr: Sheet 18 Stubaital (1:35,000)

Books

OeAV Hut Directory (Previously the Green book) Volume 1 Ostalpen: Rother
Dieter Seibert Eastern Alps: The Classic Routes of the Highest Peaks Diadem Books (1992)
Includes the Wilder Freiger, Zuckerhuet and Lisenser Ferner Kogel
Stubaier Alpen 50 Selected Walks Kompass Wander Fuehrer
Kev Reynolds (Contributing Editor) Trekking in the Alps Cicerone (2011)

Websites

These websites are mostly in Geman but will no doubt at some stage be translated into English.

www.stubai.at
www.stubaierhoehenweg.at

Inspirational reading

You may find the following mountaineering books from mountain lovers long ago interesting and inspiring – if you can track them down!
Frank Smythe Over Tyrolese Hills Hodder and Stoughton (1936)
Sir Martin Conway The Alps from End to End Nelson Books (1894)
Francis Fox Tuckett Pictures in Tyrol and Elsewhere Longmans, Green & Co (1867)