- published: 01 Jul 2014
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In geomorphology, a col is the lowest point on a mountain ridge between two peaks. It may also be called a notch, a gap or a saddle, although the last-named usually has a wider meaning and may contain a mountain pass. Moreover, the term col tends to be associated more with mountain, rather than hill, ranges.
The height of a summit above its highest col (called the key col) is effectively a measure of a mountain's prominence, an important measure of the independence of its summit. Cols lie on the line of the watershed between two mountains, often on a prominent ridge or arête.
Particularly rugged and forbidding cols in the terrain are usually referred to as notches. They are generally unsuitable as mountain passes, but are occasionally crossed by mule tracks or climbers' routes.
For example, the highest col in Austria, the Obere Glocknerscharte ("Upper Glockner Col", 3,766 m above sea level (AA)), lies between the Kleinglockner (3,783 m (AA)) and Großglockner (3,798 m (AA)) mountains, giving the Kleinglockner a minimum prominence of 17 metres. The notch is about 8 metres wide and links the two peaks with a usually corniced, often only two foot wide, narrow, snow-covered ridge. The col is on the normal climbing route from the Adlersruhe to the summit of the Großglockner; it acts as the exit from the Pallavicini Couloir (Pallavicini-Rinne) (an ice gully lying at up to 55 ° to the horizontal) from the north and has never been climbed from the south. Hardly anyone has ever considered crossing the Glockner massif via this col.
[music: Potasz, Konarska; lyrics: Potasz]
...uwielbiam, gdy
Opuszkami pokazujesz mi
Jak lekko jest zobaczy twj erotyzm...
(Teraz nie, pniej)
Gdy sami bdziemy
Poka Ci
Jak "wiat klka przede mn...
Jak giniemy i pojawiamy si...
W krtkich chwilach (odpoczynku)
...kiedy sami bdziemy poka ci.
Kiedy muskasz me pragnienia (to)
Kolorujesz je
W bkit nieba ubierasz to
O czym mwimy.
I love it when
you show me with your fingertips
how easy it is to see
your erotism
When we are alone I'll show you
how the world kneels down - we die
we appear again
in these few short moments
when we are alone
I will show you this
When you're stroking my desires
you colour them
what you're talking about
you make it light blue