Finsteraarhorn
Americannoun
noun
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Such was the Alpine exploit performed in one day last week by Prince Chichibu, second son of the Mikado of Japan, first Alpinist to scale either the Finsteraarhorn or the Schreckhorn this year.
From Time Magazine Archive
Up the Finsteraarhorn, 14,026 ft., the highest mountain in the Bernese Alps.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Finsteraarhorn alone stood out in bold relief, black against a white world, its abrupt slopes affording no foothold for the snow.
From Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence by Agassiz, Louis
And the Finsteraarhorn roars back in answer: 'Thick clouds cover the earth….
From Dream Tales and Prose Poems by Garnett, Constance
The Finsteraarhorn sends down a number of cliffy buttresses, separated from each other by wide couloirs filled with ice and snow.
From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John
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