Ortler

[ awrt-ler ]

noun

1. a range of the Alps in N Italy.
2. the highest peak of this range. 12,802 feet (3,902 meters).

Example Sentences

Messner envisioned the museum emerging from the mountain in three places: two windows looking out toward the peaks of Peitlerkofel and Heiligkreuzkofel, and a balcony facing Ortler and South Tyrol.

From Architectural Digest

"In the Ortler Alps," he replied.

From BBC

To the left was the great range of the Ortler Alps, with the Ortler Spitze rising like a white dome above them all.

From Project Gutenberg

Light--light, of which the eye might take its fill--across to the invisible distance and to where the great Ortler peak seemed wrapped in sleep and dreams.

From Project Gutenberg

The towering peaked walls of the Ortler--Madatsch, and the glaciers of Trafoy--stared pitilessly down on the forsaken pair--there was not a projecting rock, not a cave that could offer shelter to the sick man.

From Project Gutenberg