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Grimsel Pass

American  
[grim-zuhl] / ˈgrɪm zəl /

noun

  1. an Alpine pass in S Switzerland. 7,159 feet (2,184 meters) high.


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This disposition of the fissures is beautifully seen from the summit of the Mayenwand on the Grimsel Pass.

From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John

The top of the Grimsel Pass, which is a little over 7,000 feet above sea-level, is the most desolate and bare of all such mountain passes.

From More Science From an Easy Chair by Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir

It rises in the great Aar glaciers, in the canton of Bern, and W. of the Grimsel Pass.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

The Grimsel Pass is the valley of the Aar; it is also the eastern flank of that great massif, or bulk and mass of mountains called the Bernese Oberland.

From The Path to Rome by Belloc, Hilaire

After I had clambered over it, however, needs must I should have to take a pass called the Grimsel Pass and reach the Rhone Valley that way.

From The Path to Rome by Belloc, Hilaire

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