Similaun

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Similaun

Ötzi memorial
Elevation 3,599 m (11,831 ft)
Location Tyrol (Flag of Austria Austria) /
South Tyrol (Flag of Italy Italy)
Range Ötztal Alps
Coordinates 46°45′49″N, 10°52′50″E
Topo map BEV OK50 173

Similaun is a mountain in the Ötztal Alps. It is on the Austrian-Italian border. At 3,599 m high, it is Austria's fifth highest summit. It was first ascended in 1834 by Josef Raffeiner and Theodor Kaserer. It is most famous for being the mountain on whose slopes Helmut and Erika Simon discovered Ötzi the Iceman in 1991.