The second highest mountain at 2,704 m (AA) in the range,[2] behind the lower pit Wildgrubenspitze (2,753 metres (9,032 ft)) in the mountains of Lech sources, it rises from the valley floor between the Großes Walsertal in the north, and Dalaas (Monastery Valley) in the south.

The first described ascent was by Otto Freiherr von Sternbach and John Sholto Douglass [de] in 1867, following a route explored but not finished by Anton Neyer from Bludenz and the guide Ferdinand Heine in the 1840s.

However, the peak had been reached before by unknown climbers as Douglass and Sternbach found a signal pole on the summit.

In 1874 John Sholto Douglass, a Scot, who had adopted the Vorarlberg for his homeland, fell to his death near the Rote Wand while hunting chamois.

[3] In much literature the first ascent is ascribed to David Pappus and companions on 25 July 1610 during his exploration of the borders of the Sonnenberg and Bludenz Counties.