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Miall -- Oberland, 12 (8089 words) |
 | He had the preceding day reached the Finsteraarhorn with his young attendant, but being overtaken unawares by dusk, had been obliged to pass the night upon a bare rock, and without fire, beneath the inclement sky. |
| The fl colour of the rock, the whiteness of the snow, and the bluish green of the ice, together with the beautiful azure of the sky, which seems to rise from the glaciers and to sink on the opposite side upon the ice, afford the only variety to the dazzled eye. |
| At the base of the Finsteraarhorn, at an actual elevation of 12,000 feet, we observed a butterfly resembling the common white species, and another on the Aletsch glacier upwards of 9,000 feet high. |
| SummitPost - Finsteraarhorn -- Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering (971 words) |
| Finsteraarhorn is the highest mountain in the Bernese Oberland, id. north of the Rhone valley. |
| From the Finsteraarhorn hut (3048 m) climb the steep slope behind the hut (hard snow in the morning). |
| Once you are in the Finsteraarhorn hut, I recommend to climb the Fiescherhorn (4049 m) and the Wannenhorn (3905m). |
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