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
Adjacent to us rose the mighty mass of the Finsteraarhorn, the monarch of the Oberland.
From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by John Tyndall
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 John Tyndall
As the sun sank the shadow of the Finsteraarhorn was cast through the adjacent atmosphere, which, thus deprived of the direct rays, curdled up into visible fog.
From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by John Tyndall
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