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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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

To our left was the Wetterhorn surrounded by wild and disorderly clouds, through the fissures of which the morning light glared strangely.

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

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 Adams, W. H. Davenport