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
"Things seem to have grown clearer round us, close at hand," replies the Finsteraarhorn; "well, and yonder, far away, in the valleys there is still a spot, and something is moving."
From A Reckless Character And Other Stories by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
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 Tyndall, John
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