Rieserferner Group

The Rieserferner Group (Italian: Gruppo delle Vedrette di Ries, German: Rieserfernergruppe) is a mountain range in the Austrian Central Alps.

The mountains mainly lie in South Tyrol, where the greater part is protected within the Rieserferner-Ahrn Nature Park.

The Rieserferner Group forms the southwesternmost part of the High Tauern, its foothills running towards the southwest as far as Bruneck in the Puster Valley.

Its name is derived from the Rieserferner, a glacier on the northern flank between the Hochgall (highest summit in the range at 3,436 m s.l.m.)

The Rieserferner Group is bounded by the following other mountain ranges of the Alps: To the north, the Klammljoch saddle forms the boundary.

The Wildgall ( 3,272 m s.l.m. ) with its northwest arete, west flank and southwest arete seen from the Rieserferner to the west (February 1997)