Wetterhorn

American  

[vet-er-hawrn] / ˈvɛt ərˌhɔrn /

noun

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

---

Wetterhorn British  

/ ˈvɛtərˌhɔrn /

noun

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

---

Example Sentences

“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

The point is that the straight line takes one over the Brienzer Grat, over the lake, and then over the Wetterhorn.

From The Path to Rome by Belloc, Hilaire

The few, scattered cottages, walled in by the everlasting hills, with the snow-covered Wetterhorn in full view, and the glacier behind it, wore a cheerless and gloomy air in the quick-coming twilight.

From An American Girl Abroad by Trafton, Adeline