The mountain rises at the head of the Hüttwinkltal valley, the upper part of the Raurisertal, on the Alpine divide. It is a mighty massif with a characteristic rock pyramid on the summit block and a great North Face above Kolm-Saigurn. The highest summit of the Goldberg Group is not the Hoher Sonnblick, however, but the 3,254-metre-high Hocharn to the north.
On 1 January 1905, a temperature of Шаблон:Convert was recorded at the summit, the lowest temperature recorded in Austria at that time.[1]
In the area of the Sonnblick there are historical gold mines, which gave their name to the mountain range around the Sonnblick, the Goldberg Group. Relics of gold digging still exist in the area; Kulm-Saigurn is an ancient mountain mining settlement.Шаблон:Citation needed At the foot of the Sonnblick it is still possible to pan for gold.Шаблон:Citation needed
Literature and maps
Liselotte Buchenauer, Peter Holl: Alpine Club GuideAnkogel- und Goldberggruppe. Bergverlag Rudolf Rother, Munich, 1986. Шаблон:ISBN
Ingeborg Auer, Reinhard Böhm, Martin Leymüller, Wolfgang Schöner: Das Klima des Sonnblicks – Klimaatlas und Klimatographie der GAW-Station Sonnblick einschließlich der umgebenden Gebirgsregion, ZAMG, Vienna, 2002, ISSN 1016-6254.[2]
