Editing Main chain of the Alps (section)

=== Eastern Alps ===
[[File:Fuscherkarkopf- Sinwelleck.JPG|thumb|Main ridge ([[Fuscherkarkopf]]) in the Hohe Tauern range]]

From the [[Maloja Pass]] (1,815 m) the main watershed dips to the south-east for a short distance, and then runs eastwards and nearly over the highest summit of the [[Bernina Range]], [[Piz Bernina]] (4,049 m), to the [[Bernina Pass]]. From here the main chain is less well defined, it rises to [[Piz Paradisin]] (3,302 m), beyond which it runs slightly north-east, east of the Italian resort of [[Livigno]], past [[Fraele Pass]] (1,952 m) and the source of the [[Adda (river)|Adda]], traverses [[Piz Murtarol]] (3,180 m) and [[Monte Forcola]], where is the tripoint between the Danube, Po and [[Adige]] basins,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://s.geo.admin.ch/9720cdf776 | title=Monte Forcola on the Swiss National Map | publisher=[[Federal Office of Topography]] | accessdate=4 April 2022}}</ref> then falls to the [[Ofen Pass]] (2,149 m), soon heads north and rises once more in [[Piz Sesvenna]] (3,204 m).

The [[Reschen Pass]] (1,504 m) marks a break in the continuity of the Alpine chain. The deep valley, the [[Vinschgau]] of the upper Adige, is one of the most remarkable features in the orography of the Alps. The little [[Reschen Lake]], which forms the chief source of the Adige, is only 4 metres below the Pass, and 8&nbsp;km from the [[Inn River|Inn]] valley. Eastward of this pass, the main chain runs north-east to the [[Brenner Pass]] along the snowy crest of the [[Ötztal Alps|Ötztal]], the highest point being the [[Weißkugel]] (3,739 m), then crossing the [[Timmelsjoch]] (2,474 m) and rising again in [[Stubai Alps]] Both the highest summits of the Ötztal and the Stubai, the [[Wildspitze]] (3,774 m) and the [[Zuckerhütl]] (3,505 m), stand a little to the north.

The [[Brenner Pass|Brenner]] (1,370 m) is the lowest of all the great road passes across the core part of the main chain and has always been the chief means of communication between Germany and Italy. For some way beyond it, the watershed runs eastwards over the highest crest of the [[Zillertal Alps]], which attains 3,510 metres in the [[Hochfeiler]]. But, a little farther, at the [[Dreiherrnspitze]] (3,499 m), the chain splits: the main watershed between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean heads south, along the [[Rieserferner Group]] to the [[Dolomites]], and [[Julian Alps]].

The main alpine divide head east, traversing the [[High Tauern]] range, crossing the [[Grossvenediger]] (3,666 m), passing just north of Austria's highest peak (the [[Grossglockner]]), traversing [[Ankogel]] (3,252 m), before curving northern across the [[Lower Tauern]], traversing its highest peak, [[Hochgolling]] (2,863 m) in the [[Schladming Tauern]] and then continuing on the same eastward path up to the [[Schober Pass]] in [[Styria]]. The [[drainage divide]] further runs eastwards through the [[Northern Limestone Alps]], ending at "[[Vienna]] Gate", the steep slopes of the [[Leopoldsberg]] (425 m) high above the [[Danube]] water gap and the [[Vienna Basin]].