Eggishorn - Aletschgletscher

25 August 2010

Aletschgletscher. Jungfrau 4168 m (bottom, left). Jungfraufirn (bottom center). Trugberg 3933 m (center).
Konkordiaplatz: where Grosser Aletschfirn, Jungfraufirn, Ewigschneefeld and Grüneggfirn meet.

Trugberg, 3933 m. Mönch 4107 m (bottom)

Gross Wannenhorn, 3906 m

Fieschergletscher. Oberaarhorn, 3637 m. Wasenhorn, 3457 m (bottom, left of Galmihorn). Galmihorn, 3517 m (bottom, right).

Eggishorn Bergstation 2869m. Eggishorn, 2927 m. Gross Wannenhorn, 3906 m (bottom, left). Finsteraarhorn 4274 m (bottom, center). Oberaarhorn, 3637 m (bottom, right).
Eggishorn was a nunatak in the Aletschfletscher.

Bergstation Eggishornbahn, 2869 m. Fiescherhorli 2893 m (left). Bettmerhorn 2856 m (right)

Blinnenhorn, 3374 m (left). Ofenhorn 3235 m (right); Ofenhorn closes the Binntal.

Eggishorn Bergstation. Fiescherhorli.
At the bottom of the mountains: the Goms valley.

Bergstation Eggishornbahn, 2869 m.
Bottom: Portjengrat, 3654 m. Weissmies, 4021m (left). Fletschhorn,3993 m (center). Zumsteinspitze 4563m (right). Dufourspitze 4634m (right).

Bettmerhorn, 2856 m (foreground). Mischabel, 4545 m (left). Matterhorn (Cervin), 4478 m (center). Weisshorn, 4357 m (right).
Average altitude of Switzerland: 1'350 m above sea level (France: 342 m)

Aletschgletscher. Weisshorn, 4506 m (bottom, left). Nesthorn, 3824 m (bottom, right).
Notice the former level of the glacier.

Zenbächerhorn, 3386 m (center). Sattelhorn, 3746 m (bottom, center)

Aletschhorn, 4195m. Mittelaletschgletscher.

Aletschgletscher; view on lateral and middle moraines. Dreieckhorn 3811 m (left)

Aletschgletscher crevasses and séracs (700 m below from this place)

Aletschgletscher, Dreieckhorn, 3811 m (left), Trugberg, 3933 m.
Cairns erected by tourists; they show the wrong way ... to the precipice.

Kennst du den Berg und seinen Wolkensteg?
Das Maultier sucht im Nebel seinen Weg,       
In Höhlen wohnt der Drachen alte Brut,            
Es stürzt der Fels und über ihn die Flut:           
Kennst du ihn wohl?                                            
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, III, 1

Map of the Valais Swiss canton, dated 1895 (at this scale, mountains are still at the same place)
You reach canton Valais from canton Berne under the Alps, though the 35 km Lötschberg Base Tunnel.
Red dot: Fiesch (1050 m); red cross: Eggishorn (2927 m); red line: Lötschberg tunnel.

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