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Lauterbrunnen lies at the bottom of a U-shaped valley that extends south and then south-westwards from the village to meet the 8-kilometer (5.0 mi) Lauterbrunnen Wall. The Lauterbrunnen Valley (Lauterbrunnental) is one of the deepest in the Alpine chain when compared with the height of the mountains that rise directly on either side. It is a ...
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Mürrenbachfall in midsummer. The Mürrenbachfall is a waterfall in the Lauterbrunnental in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland.The Mürrenbach, which rises above Mürren, passes the village on the southern edge of the town and falls here over the high rock walls of the Trogtal almost to the valley floor, is a left tributary of the Weissen Lütschine with a catchment area of three and a half ...
The western section of the Lauterbrunnen Wall, with the north faces of the Grosshorn (left) and the Breithorn (right). The Lauterbrunnen Wall is a term used in the English-speaking mountaineering world [1] to refer to a north-west-facing mountain wall in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland.
View of Alps from Schilthorn. The Schilthorn (2,970 metres (9,744 ft)) is a summit in Europe, in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland.It overlooks the valley of Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Oberland, and is the highest mountain in the range lying north of the Sefinenfurgge Pass.
Staubbach Falls (German: Staubbachfall (sing.), lit.: dust creek fall) is a waterfall in Switzerland, located just west of Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Highlands.The waterfall drops 297 metres (974 feet) from a hanging valley that ends in overhanging cliffs above the Weisse Lütschine.
The line was electrified in 1909/10, and year-round operation started in 1925 (to Lauterbrunnen) and 1960 (to Grindelwald). Construction of the Jungfrau Railway started in 1896, and it opened in stages from 1898 to 1912. [8] Since the 1930s, Kleine Scheidegg has been the base of expeditions on the north face of the Eiger.
Located in the Lauterbrunnen Valley, the creek called Trimmelbach or Trümmelbach alone drains the northerly glacier defiles of Eiger (3967 m), Mönch (4099 m), and Jungfrau (4158 m) and carries more than 20,200 tons of boulder detritus per year. [1] Its drainage area is 24 square kilometres (9.3 sq mi), half of it covered by snow and glaciers.