Photographs of the Alps in summer.


 

Synopsis.

Area of Saas-Fee
Area of Grand-Combin
Area of the Grand St-Bernard
Area of Grindelwald
Area of Grimsel
Various of the Bernese Alps
Various of the Alps valaisannes
LotschenTal
Kiental
Lenk
Saas Almagel
Niesen

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Area of Saas-Fee

Saas-Fee is located in the south and in the middle of Been worth, has nearness of border Italian. It is one of the prettiest tourist and high mountain site of the Alps, with Dom who overhangs Saas-Fee from the top of this 4500m.
Chart of Saas-Fee
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Alphubel seen since the Hotel Langflue (2867m).
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Dom seen since the Hotel Langflue (2867m).
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Old moutain hut...
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Arrival has Saas-Fee (1800m).
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Saas-Fee and Weissmies (4017m).
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Hotel Langflue (2867m) with the top of Saas-Fee.



Area of Grand-Combin.

Grand-Combin is located in the south of Martigny. It is the name of a massif that regroups several summit, the most high is the Combin de Grafeneire.
Chart of Large Combin
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Rise towards the Grand Combin.
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View of Cervin (Matterhorn) since Combin de Tsessette.
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View of the Alps since Combin de Tsessette.
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View of the Mont-Rose since Combin de Tsessette.
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View of Combin de Grafeneire since Combin de Tsessette.



Area of the Grand St-Bernard.

The Grand Saint Bernard is a collar at 2500m located in the south of Martigny. Located between the Mont-Blanc and the Grand Saint Bernard, landscapes discovered is very pretty and still wild.
Chart of the Large-St-Bernard.
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Grand Combin (4314m) seen since the Grand-St-Bernard.
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The collar of Grand St Bernard (2469m).

 

Area of Grindelwald.

Grindelwald is located in the south of Interlaken, in the Alps Bernoises. It is a big tourist station with 4000m moutain, like Eiger.
Chart of Grindelwald

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View of the rock faces around Eiger since Grindelwald.
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Way up to the refuge "Glecksteinhütte" (Grindelwald) 
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The refuge "GleckSteinHutte".
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Monsch (4107m) on the left, then
JungFrau (4158m), seen on the right of Klein
Scheidegg (Grindelwald).
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Another photograph of Monsch, considering southern face.
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Seen on the bone going from Mönch (4017m) to Fiescherhörner (4049m), seen on the way up to the refuge " schreckhorn hütte ".
The way up to this refuge is done by overhanging a splendid glacial valley of Grindelwald.
Panorama is so nice that I created a special page summing up the way up to this refuge: Schreckhornhutte.html
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Eiger (3970m) seen since Mannlichen (2229m), with the top of Grindelwald.


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Valley of the Obere Grindelwald Gletscher.
They see Mattenberg (3104m) at
right, then Schreckhorn (4078m)
at the bottom.
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Same valley, seen from Glecksteinhütte (2317m).



Area of Grimsel.

The collar of Grimsel is located on the east of Interlaken, and allow to join the Wallis. The road of Grimsel is very pretty, they discover a splendid landscape between rock and glacier.
Chart of Grimsel.
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Arrival near the collar of Grimsel (2164m).
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View on the valley of Finsteraarhorngletscher that one impressed since Grimsel.
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Then Finsteraarhorngletscher... and Finsteraarhorn (4274m) in the clouds...
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Valley of Urbachtal, above Innertkirchen.
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Gauligletscher, with the summit Bärglistock (3656m), Ewigschneeh (3329m).
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The lake below Gaulihütte, with 1874m, with behind Ritzlihorn (3282m)
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Slopes below of Dossen (3138m).





Various of the Bernese Alps.

The bernoises Alps have a lot of interesting regions. Here are some some in chance...

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The red sex (2940m) in the solid mass of Diablerets.
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Area of Etivaz, in the north of Diablerets.
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Diablerets, and its glacier at the bottom.
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Hockenhorn (3293m) seen since the lotschenpass (2690m).
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The refuge Lotschenpasshütte (2690m).
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View of the bottom of the Gasteretal valley, with
glacier Kanderfirn and the summit Tschingelhorn (3562m)
on the right, Blüemlisalp (3650m) on the left,
then the Mutthon (3035m) which is the rock in the right medium of the glacier.
Nearer in front and on the left, the Doldenhorn (3636m).
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The Tower of Aï, located at the entry of Wallis.
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Entered of Wallis, town of Villeneuve.




Various of the Alps valaisannes.

The Alps valaisannes have some other interesting areas. Here are some in chance...

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Lake Tanay in May 2003, with a top with 2206m.
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Lake Salanfe (1925m) in May 2003:
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A flower...

LotschenTal

The valley of LotschenTal is in Wallis, north of Visp. It is located north of the Rhône, with an altitude about 1800m, and gives an interesting landscape. A site is especially made (http: // www.loetschental.ch/), in German, and also on Wikipédia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lötschental). This valley is not very far from the Aletsch gletscher, and it worth it an interesting postiion thanks to the 13000ft surroundings.

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Kiental

Kiental is a small village of mountain located in the south of the Lake of Thun has 960m of altitude, in the Alps bernoise. The small valley of Kiental sees summits evolved of 2000m has near 3500m in the bottom of the valley. A site exists (http://www.kiental.ch/).

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Lenk

Lenk is a village of mountain located in the Alps Bernoises, not very far from Gstaad. Lenk is located in the end of a long valley which ends with Wildstruble at 10500ft. A site exists (http://www.lenk.ch/en/welcome.cfm).

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Saas Almagell

Saas-Almagell is located in the Wallis, at nearness of Saas-Fee. It is enough far when we come from Swiss French-speaking, but the region is very pretty thanks to 15000ft of surroundings (Dom, massif of the Mount-rose). Some information exist on the site of Saas-Fee (http://www.saas-fee.ch/en/navpage.cfm?category=RegionSF&subcat=DestSA&id=24086).

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Niesen

Niesen is a summit has 7500ft. This not very high after the photographs of 13000ft, but this mountain is located above the lowland of Thun, what gives a superb panorama on the region of Interlaken and this side of the Alps Bernoises. They can go up by foot (5200ft of difference in altitude) or by the funicular railway. On top there is restaurant to restore us between two photographs. A site exists (http://www.niesen.ch/).

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Large photograph of Saas-Fee - Large photograph of large-combin - Large photograph of the large saint-Bernard  - Large photograph of Grindelwald - Large photograph of Grimsel - Large photograph of Alphubel - Large photograph of Dom - Large photograph of Weismies - Large photograph of the Langflue hotel - Large photograph of Cervin - Large photograph of the Mount-Rose - Large photograph of Combin of grafeneire - Large photograph of the pass of the large Saint-Bernard. - Large photograph of the refuge glecksteinhutte - Large photograph of Monsch - Large photograph of Finsteraarhorngletscher - Large photograph of Finsteraarhorn - Large photograph of the valley of Urbachtal - Large photograph of  Gauligletscher - Large photograph of Lotschenpasshütte - Large photograph of the red sex - Large photograph of Hockenhorn - Large photograph of Tschingelhorn - Large photograph of Blüemlisalp - Large photograph of  Mutthon - Large photograph of Doldenhorn - Large photograph of the Tower of Aï - Large photograph of  the Lake Salanfe


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