Wetterhorn

American  

[vet-er-hawrn] / ˈvɛt ərˌhɔrn /

noun

1. a mountain in S Switzerland, in the Bernese Alps. 12,149 feet (3,715 meters).

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Wetterhorn British  

/ ˈvɛtərˌhɔrn /

noun

1. a mountain in S Switzerland, in the Bernese Alps. Height: 3701 m (12 143 ft)

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Wetterhorn

“You live in complete solitude, just you, your animals and your thoughts,” he said, gazing at the windswept tundra below the soaring Uncompahgre and Wetterhorn peaks.

From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2022

The romantic alpinists who climbed mountains such as the Matterhorn and Wetterhorn gave way to larger expeditions; the British using their global status to overpower assorted peaks in Asia, Africa and South America.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 27, 2013

Army Dakota plane had been caught in an Alpine downdraft, had crash-landed on the Wetterhorn, in a yawning ice bowl just ten miles from Switzerland's famous peak, the 13,670-foot Jungfrau.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thinking over my plans, as mapped out, I perceived that they did not take in the Furka Pass, the Rhone Glacier, the Finsteraarhorn, the Wetterhorn, etc.

From A Tramp Abroad — Volume 05 by Twain, Mark

And there at the end of the journey is the great glacier that leaps down, seven thousand feet, between the Schreckhorn and the Wetterhorn, to the gracious valley of Grindelwald.

From Leaves in the Wind by Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)