Bettlerkarspitze, Mountain summit in Tyrol, Austria

Bettlerkarspitze is a 2,268-metre summit in the Sonnjoch group of the eastern Karwendel, standing between the Falzthurnjoch (2,150 m) and the Schaufelspitze, about 1.1 km from the latter. Its main summit rises above a cross-marked pre-summit at 2,175 m, and a ridge connects it to the Schaufelspitze.

The Bettlerkarspitze lies in the Sonnjoch group of the eastern Karwendel, between the Falzthurnjoch (2,150 m) and the Schaufelspitze, 1.1 km away. The normal route starts at the Plumsjochhütte and reaches a cross-marked pre-summit at 2,175 m by a good but strenuous mountain path. A rockfall removed the fixed rope that once secured a five-metre overhang, so a new route marked with neon-yellow dots now runs southwest around the summit structure to the ridge leading to the Schaufelspitze.

The name Bettlerkarspitze combines the German words for beggar (Bettler) and a high cirque (Kar) with Spitze, meaning peak, referring to the bowl-shaped terrain below the summit. The summit cross stands on the 2,175-metre forepeak, which climbers reach before the exposed final scramble.

The normal route starts at the Plumsjohütte and reaches a cross-marked pre-summit at 2,175 m via a good but strenuous mountain path. From there the exposed climb to the main summit is grade II; a new route marked with neon-yellow dots now leads southwest around the summit structure to the ridge toward the Schaufelspitze.

The five-metre overhang below the main summit once had a fixed rope, but a rockfall destroyed it and the rope was removed. A new route now avoids the overhang, circling the summit block to the south-west and ending on the ridge toward the Schaufelspitze; from the 2,175 m fore-summit it is marked with neon-yellow dots.