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Schreckhorn
Sign in to saveThe Schreckhorn (4,078 m) is a mountain in the Bernese Alps. It is the highest peak located entirely in the canton of Bern. The Schreckhorn is the northernmost Alpine four-thousander and the northernmost summit rising above 4,000 metres in Europe.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Schreckhorn
- Mountain.photo
- Schreckhorn peak.jpg
- Mountain.photo_size
- 285
- Mountain.photo_caption
- The Schreckhorn from the north
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 4,078
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 795
- Mountain.isolation_km
- 5.5
- Mountain.translation
- Peak of terror
- Mountain.map
- Switzerland
- Mountain.map_caption
- Location in Switzerland
- Mountain.parent_peak
- Finsteraarhorn
- Mountain.location
- Canton of Bern, Switzerland
- Mountain.range
- Bernese Alps
- Mountain.first_ascent
- 16 August 1861 by Leslie Stephen and party
- Mountain.normal_route
- south-west ridge
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The Schreckhorn (4,078 m) is a mountain in the Bernese Alps. It is the highest peak located entirely in the canton of Bern. The Schreckhorn is the northernmost Alpine four-thousander and the northernmost summit rising above 4,000 metres in Europe.
== Geography == The Schreckhorn is located 10 km south-east of Grindelwald between the Upper and Lower Grindelwald Glacier. The region is made up of uninhabited glacial valleys, the great Aar Glaciers and the Fiescher Glacier. The summit of the Lauteraarhorn is located very close and reaches almost the same altitude. The highest peak of the Bernese Alps, the Finsteraarhorn, lies 6 km to the south.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Schreckhorn” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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