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The Bettmerhorn is a mountain of the Bernese Alps, located north of Bettmeralp in the Swiss canton of Valais. The summit can be reached with a 30-minute vertical hike after ascending most of the mountain by cable car from the car free village of Bettmeralp. Bettmeralp is accessible by cable car from the Betten train station (Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn).

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Mountain.name
Bettmerhorn
Mountain.photo
Bettmerhorn.jpg
Mountain.elevation_m
2872
Mountain.prominence_m
150
Mountain.map
Switzerland
Mountain.map_caption
Location in Switzerland
Mountain.parent_peak
Eggishorn
Mountain.location
Valais, Switzerland
Mountain.range
Bernese Alps

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The Bettmerhorn is a mountain of the Bernese Alps, located north of Bettmeralp in the Swiss canton of Valais. The summit can be reached with a 30-minute vertical hike after ascending most of the mountain by cable car from the car free village of Bettmeralp. Bettmeralp is accessible by cable car from the Betten train station (Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn).

The Bettmerhorn summit station offers impressive views on the Bernese Alps and the Aletsch Glacier, the largest in the Alps. The view also extends to the Lepontine and Pennine Alps (Dom, Matterhorn, Weisshorn).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bettmerhorn” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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