Wetterhorn
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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“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
Before my eyes the Wetterhorn raised its scarped acclivities; to the right, the masses of the Eiger, to the left, the huge Scheideck and the Faulhorn.
From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by W. H. Davenport Adams
Chip continued to measure the Wetterhorn with his eye.
From The Letter of the Contract by Basil King
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