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myself, stretched at full length on a little hay over a hard rock mattress, convex instead of concave at the point where one likes to rest one's weight. Chaytor was in the middle, and as we were very close was warm and slept. The Guv and I courted Nature's soft nurse in vain. At two we got up and methodically put our feet into the stocks, i.e. our boots, breakfasted and shivered, then started (unwashed of course, as the cold gave us malignant hydrophobia) a little after 3:30.
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Here we encountered a biting bitter wind. Peter
Baumann cut magnificent steps, at least he and Rubi did between them, the one improving on the other's first rough blows. After Rubi came Chaytor with Kauffmann behind him, then the Guv, and then myself, the tail of the string. Each step was a long lift
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and crevasses. They seemed to form at first an impassable labyrinth, but gradually the guides wound in and out between the large rifts, which were exquisitely lovely with their overhanging banks of snow and glittering icicles, and then trod as on pins and needles over a snowbridge here and there, or
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All along this crest went a snakelike long crevasse, for which we had continually to sound, and go first one side and then the other; then we got to the foot of the saddle. Some twenty or thirty steps, some cut, some uncut, soon took us up a kind of hollow, and we got on a little sloping plateau of
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The "virgin" peak was heavily romanticized as "goddess" or "priestess" in late 18th to 19th century
Romanticism. Its summit, considered inaccessible, remained untouched until the 19th century. After the first ascent in 1811 by Swiss alpinist Johann Rudolf Meyer, the peak was jokingly referred to as
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Suddenly there burst upon us, on lifting our heads over the ridge, the green and cheerful valleys of
Lauterbrunnen and Interlaken, of Grindelwald and a distant view of others equally beautiful stretching on for ever in one vast panorama. On the other side in grim contrast there was a wild and even
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The hole was about 150 feet up one of the loose stone cliffs one now knows so well. So we groped our way down it and over the moraine â the stars still lingering, as day was just dawning. We could not start at 1:30, the proper time, as there was no moon and we wanted light as we had to tramp the
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On July 23, 1863, Phillpotts, with James
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and a relatively short access to the
Jungfrau itself, the height difference between the station and the summit being only 704 metres and the horizontal distance being slightly less than 2 kilometres. As a result, in the popular mind, the Jungfrau has become a mountain associated with the Bernese
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to make the glaciated areas on its south side more accessible. The building of the tunnel took 16 years and the summit station was not opened before 1912. The goal was in fact to reach the summit of the
Jungfrau with an elevator from the highest railway station, located inside the mountain. The
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Faulberg hole about dark, and enjoyed the coffee the longman (Kauffmann) made, as one would in a hole in a rock in a cold evening. The "Faulberg Nachtlager" consists of two holes and a vestibule to the upper hole. The Upper Hole in which we lodged just contained Chay, the Guv and
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Mountain Specialists Division 1, died in an accident on the normal route. Although the causes of the deaths was not immediately clear, a report by the Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research concluded that the avalanche risk was unusually high due to recent
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The journey was a most extraordinary one for the time, and some persons threw doubts at its complete success. To settle these, another expedition was undertaken in 1812. In this the two sons, Rudolf (1791â1833) and
Gottlieb (1793â1829), of Johann Rudolf Meyer, played the chief parts. After an
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only. Then up a steep ice slope, very steep I should say, down which the bits of ice cut out of the steps hopped and jumped at full gallop and then bounded over to some bottomless place which we could not see down. Their pace gave one an unpleasant idea of the possible consequence of a slip.
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was crossed twice (this route being much more direct than the long detour through the Lötschental), Rudolf, with the two Valais hunters (Alois Volker and Joseph Bortis), a
Guttannen porter named Arnold AbbĂŒhl, and a Hasle man, bivouacked on a depression on the southeast ridge of the
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774:. They had to carry ladders with them in order to cross the many crevasses on the north flank. Having spent the night on the rocks of the Schneehorn (3,402 m or 11,161 ft) they gained next morning the SilberlĂŒcke, the depression between the Jungfrau and
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The normal route follows the traces of the first climbers, but the long approach on the Aletsch Glacier is no longer necessary. From the area of the Jungfraujoch the route to the summit takes only a few hours. Most climbers start from the
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The landscapes around the Jungfrau are extremely contrasted. In contrast to the vertiginous precipices of its northwest, the mountain's southeastern side emerges from the upper snows of the Jungfraufirn, one of the main feeders of the
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glacier at once. Rubi led, and off we went, roped and in Indian file, in the old treadmill way over the slippery plowed-field-like snow that lay on the upper glacier, for a pull without a check of one or two hours.
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The Jungfrau was climbed via the west side for the first time in 1885 by Fritz and Heinrich von Allmen, Ulrich Brunner, Fritz Graf, Karl Schlunegger and Johann StĂ€gerâall from Wengen. They ascended the Rottal ridge
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of the Alpine guide Peter Baumann records an ascent of the Jungfrau made by himself with three men from England in July 1863. The foreign climbers were long thought to have been
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Dumler, Helmut; Burkhardt, Willi P. (2008). "Jungfrau".
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740:Excursions et SĂ©jours dans les Glaciers
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1200:topographic maps. The key col is the
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1301:Historical Dictionary of Switzerland
1173:List of 4000 metre peaks of the Alps
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2384:World Heritage Sites in Switzerland
1613:Coolidge, William Augustus Brevoort
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867:the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race
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1600:. London: Longmans, Green and Co.
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1258:(in German). Zurich, Switzerland
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1250:Therese HĂ€nni (3 August 2011).
654:from the summit of the Jungfrau
418:, located between the northern
1965:Accessible by public transport
1945:Major summits (most prominent)
1598:The Alpine Guide: Central Alps
1394:The Alps in Nature and History
965:Named after the Jungfrau, the
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1364:(in French). Paris: Arthaud.
51:4,158 m (13,642 ft)
1543:. Kindle Direct Publishing.
1094:, opened at the foot of the
983:Jungfraujoch railway station
251:Show map of Canton of Valais
857:Oxford University Boat Club
248:Jungfrau (Canton of Valais)
135:Maiden, Virgin, Young Woman
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1390:Coolidge, William Augustus
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891:Peter Kaufmann the younger
536:"Mme Meyer" (Mrs. Meyer).
218:Show map of Canton of Bern
61:694 m (2,277 ft)
1450:Guide des Alpes bernoises
761:Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau
215:Jungfrau (Canton of Bern)
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83:8.2 km (5.1 mi)
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2364:Mountains of Switzerland
1925:Mountains of Switzerland
1646:at 4000er.de (in German)
1528:, Precision Press, 1979.
1448:Brandt, Maurice (1982).
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879:James Surtees Phillpotts
468:The construction of the
2349:Alpine four-thousanders
1624:EncyclopĂŠdia Britannica
1276: Daniel Anker:
768:Geoffrey Winthrop Young
611:and to the west by the
492:, which was declared a
185:Show map of Switzerland
182:Location in Switzerland
1541:A Phillpotts Scrapbook
1513:A Phillpotts Scrapbook
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1975:Canton highest points
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1569:strollingguides.co.uk
1539:Gwynn, Roger (2018).
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434:. Together with the
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366:basic snow/ice climb
2379:Mountains of Valais
1196:Retrieved from the
1092:Wetterhorn Elevator
1024:perennial snow-line
676:Oberaletsch Glacier
494:World Heritage Site
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132:English translation
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2163:Piz Bernina
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1849:Oberaletsch
1780:BlĂŒemlisalp
1755:Bietschhorn
1715:Schreckhorn
1700:Aletschhorn
1304:, 2008.
1262:11 February
1219:Aletschhorn
1165:Alps portal
1139:), via the
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1046:Grindelwald
1012:World War I
839:Alpine Club
721:MĂ€rjelensee
708:Oberaarjoch
692:Aletschhorn
589:Grindelwald
562:Aletschhorn
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548:(Bern) and
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298:Switzerland
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89:Coordinates
67:Parent peak
2343:Categories
2255:Monte Rosa
2209:Monte Rosa
2183:Lagginhorn
2128:Strahlhorn
2088:Matterhorn
2068:Monte Rosa
2021:St. Gallen
2001:GraubĂŒnden
1837:South side
1796:North side
1775:Wetterhorn
1765:Mittaghorn
1633:"Jungfrau"
1594:Ball, John
1336:8 February
1331:unesco.org
1237:References
1116:Wilderswil
1108:MĂ€nnlichen
1100:Schilthorn
1096:Wetterhorn
1034:Rottalhorn
992:Interlaken
947:See also:
887:Grabipeter
827:FĂŒhrerbuch
806:Swiss Army
776:Silberhorn
574:Interlaken
522:Wengernalp
496:in 2001.
452:Swiss Alps
428:Interlaken
57:Prominence
2321:Mountains
2265:Chasseral
2234:Piz Kesch
2178:Weissmies
2138:Breithorn
2083:Weisshorn
2006:Nidwalden
1984:By canton
1879:Oeschinen
1808:Tschingel
1688:Mountains
1433:Ball 1869
1420:The Times
1407:Ball 1869
1314:Swisstopo
1204:(3,464 m)
1198:Swisstopo
1120:Eggishorn
1062:Eigerwand
1001:In 1893,
734:, Heath,
664:Guttannen
652:Concordia
605:Eigerjoch
566:Lake Thun
520:given to
504:The name
500:Etymology
337:Swisstopo
150:Geography
79:Isolation
47:Elevation
2173:GrĂŒnhorn
2143:Jungfrau
2113:Alphubel
2011:Obwalden
1884:MĂ€rjelen
1859:Fiescher
1823:Unteraar
1789:Glaciers
1770:Nesthorn
1750:Ebnefluh
1735:GrĂŒnhorn
1705:Jungfrau
1644:Jungfrau
1615:(1911).
1596:(1869).
1392:(1908).
1278:Jungfrau
1151:See also
506:Jungfrau
461:and two
446:and the
382:Jungfrau
344:Climbing
332:Topo map
275:Jungfrau
242:Jungfrau
209:Jungfrau
176:Jungfrau
24:Jungfrau
2307:Portals
2078:Lyskamm
1955:Highest
1854:Aletsch
1828:Oberaar
1295:Italian
1066:Eismeer
969:of the
943:Tourism
672:Grimsel
476:to the
463:chamois
412:transl.
303:Cantons
295:Country
2214:SĂ€ntis
2036:Valais
2026:Ticino
2016:Schwyz
1996:Glarus
1803:Kander
1547:
1482:18 May
1368:
1289:French
1283:German
1114:above
1106:, the
1104:MĂŒrren
1102:above
1054:Wengen
1048:, and
996:Fiesch
927:cognac
668:Valais
624:massif
620:MĂŒrren
432:Fiesch
311:Valais
144:German
127:Naming
2148:Mönch
1931:Lists
1872:Lakes
1745:Eiger
1710:Mönch
1574:1 May
1184:Notes
736:Desor
660:Aarau
597:Eiger
593:Mönch
514:Eiger
510:Mönch
459:Aarau
440:Mönch
436:Eiger
390:-frow
388:YOONG
2270:Tödi
2224:Tödi
2041:Vaud
1991:Bern
1844:Lang
1576:2009
1545:ISBN
1484:2009
1366:ISBN
1338:2010
1316:maps
1292:and
1280:in
1264:2016
1052:via
977:, a
825:The
785:and
650:and
560:and
482:Alps
438:and
430:and
380:The
309:and
307:Bern
2073:Dom
2031:Uri
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