View from the pass on Grimselsee, Grimsel Hospice und Räterichsbodensee
The Grimsel Pass (German: Grimselpass) is a Swiss alpine pass between the valley of the Rhone River (Canton of Valais) and the Haslital (upper valley of the Aar river) in Canton of Berne, at 46°33.72′ N 8°20.34′ E. Jump to: navigation, search ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x653, 143 KB) Grimselpass mit Grimselsee im Vordergrund und Räterichsbodensee im Hintergrund, Gemeinde Guttannen, Schweiz ursprünglich auf die deutsche Wikipedia geladen Source: de:Benutzer:BerndGehrmann im Juli 2004 File links The following pages link to... Jump to: navigation, search ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x653, 143 KB) Grimselpass mit Grimselsee im Vordergrund und Räterichsbodensee im Hintergrund, Gemeinde Guttannen, Schweiz ursprünglich auf die deutsche Wikipedia geladen Source: de:Benutzer:BerndGehrmann im Juli 2004 File links The following pages link to... Palliative care is any form of medical care or treatment that concentrates on reducing the severity of the symptoms of a disease or slows its progress rather than providing a cure. ... In a range of hills, or especially of mountains, a pass (also gap, notch, col, saddle, bwlch or bealach) is a lower point that allows easier access through the range. ... Length 800 km Elevation of the source 1753 m Average discharge 1800 m³/ s Area watershed 100,200 km² Origin Rhône glacier Mouth Mediterranean Sea Basin countries Switzerland, France The River Rhône ( Latin Rhodanus, French Rhône, Occitan Rose, German Rotten) is one of the major rivers (ca. ... The Valais (also known in German as Wallis) is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland in the south-western part of the country, in the Pennine Alps around the valley of the Rhone River from its springs to Lake Geneva. ... The Swiss canton of Bern (German: Kanton Bern; French Canton de Berne) has a population of about 947,000. ...
It is located near the source of the Rhone at the Rhone Glacier. Also in the area is the world famous Grimsel Test Site (www.grimsel.com). Johann Heinrich Wüest: Der Rhonegletscher, c. ...
Map of the reservoirs on the Bernese side below Grimsel Pass
The descent towards the GrimselHospice is very grand, owing to the enormous surfaces of smooth ice-ground rocks of the hardest gneiss, which plunge down at a very high angle for nearly a thousand feet into the curious little enclosed valley, with its two small rock-basin lakes in which the hospice is situated.
It is, however, after passing through the narrow gorge between the hamlets of Inner and Outer Urweid, with its picturesque waterfall which the coach road passes by tunnelling under it, that we approach the most remarkable feature of the district.
Passing along the high road, which by three great zigzags mounts up the steep ascent, the entrance to the gorge is imperceptible; and it is not till having crossed the hill and descended on the other side into the wide alluvial plain of Meiringen that the stream is again
The Grimsel road proper, which begins at Guttanen, follows a fairly straight and gentle course up the valley for a kilometer or so, begins to climb more steeply through the forest and crosses the river on the Tschingel bridge (1,140 m/3,740ft).
It then passes rugged fl crags and massive accumulations of debris which bear witness to the violence of the avalanches and the rushing torrents, returns by the Schwarzbrunnen bridge to the left bank (1,217 m/3,993ft) and continues around the rocky bulk of the Stäubender.
The compensation reservoir of the Handegg I hydro-electric station is passed on the left (1,309 m/4,295ft).
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