Finsteraarhorn
Americannoun
noun
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Up the Finsteraarhorn, 14,026 ft., the highest mountain in the Bernese Alps.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
We once caught a sight of the topmost pinnacle of the Finsteraarhorn; beside it was the Rothhorn, and near this again the Oberaarhorn, with the Viescher glacier streaming from its shoulders.
From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by John Tyndall
Now it is well," replies the Finsteraarhorn; "it is clean everywhere, quite white, wherever one looks….
From A Reckless Character And Other Stories by Isabel Florence Hapgood
No antecedent reason can be shown why the Mont Cervin or Finsteraarhorn should not have risen sharp out of the plains of Lombardy, instead of out of glaciers.
From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by John Ruskin
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