Grosses Fiescherhorn is a
mountain peak
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of the
Bernese Alps
The Bernese Alps are a mountain range of the Alps located in western Switzerland. Although the name suggests that they are located in the Berner Oberland region of the canton of Bern, portions of the Bernese Alps are in the adjacent cantons of Va ...
, located on the border between the cantons of
Bern
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and
Valais
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, halfway between the
Mönch
The Mönch (, German: "monk") at is a mountain in the Bernese Alps, in Switzerland. Together with the Eiger and the Jungfrau, it forms a highly recognisable group of mountains, visible from far away.
The Mönch lies on the border between the ...
and the
Finsteraarhorn
The Finsteraarhorn () is a mountain lying on the border between the cantons of Canton of Bern, Bern and Valais. It is the highest mountain of the Bernese Alps and the List of prominent mountains of Switzerland, most prominent peak of Switzerland. ...
. At above sea level, its summit culminates over the whole Fiescherhorn massif (), which is also composed of the slightly lower
Hinteres Fiescherhorn () to the south and
Kleines Fiescherhorn (also called ''Ochs'' aka ox, ) to the east. From the north both are well hidden behind other mountain peaks and can only been seen from ''Isch'' in
Grindelwald
Grindelwald is a village and Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli (administrative district), Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Bern (canton), Berne. In additio ...
(1,095 m). The mountain is shared between the municipalities of Grindelwald and
Fieschertal
Fieschertal is a village and municipality in the district of Goms in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Besides the village of Fieschertal, the municipality includes the nearby hamlets of Wichul, Zer Flie and Wirbul.
History
Fieschertal is f ...
.
Ascents are usually made from one of these three popular routes: one starts from the
Mönchsjoch Hut, one from the
Konkordia Hut, and the third from the
Finsteraarhorn Hut.
Climbing history

The summit was first reached on 23 July 1862 by H. B. George and
Adolphus Warburton Moore
Adolphus Warburton Moore (1841–1887) (known generally as A. W. Moore) was a British civil servant and mountaineer.
Life
The son of Major John Arthur Moore and Sophia Stewart Yates, Moore was an India Office official from 1858 to 1887, holding ...
, with guides
Christian Almer
220px, Christian Almer
Christian Almer (29 March 1826 – 17 May 1898) was a Swiss mountain guide and the first ascensionist of many prominent mountains in the western Alps during the golden and silver ages of alpinism. Almer was born and di ...
and Ulrich Kaufmann. They used what is now the normal route, the south-west ridge.
[Helmut Dumler,Willi P. Burkhardt, ''Les 4000 des Alpes'', ]
The north side of the mountain was first climbed in 1926. On 13 August, W. Amstutz and P. von Schumacher reached the summit after a 15-hour ascent via the north ridge, which is the northern boundary of the Fiescherwand.
[
The first direct ascent on the Fiescherwand was made by W. Welzenbach and H. Tillmann in 1930. Welzenbach was an expert climber, who disputed the common idea of his time that an ascent of the Fiescherwand was impossible. The previous year, in 1929, Welzenbach and Tillmann climbed the north ridge in only 8.5 hours.][ The following year they started the ascent of the Fiescherwand on the morning of 5 September 1930, taking a line that ran directly to the summit. They reached the top that evening, after a 12-hour ascent.][
]
See also
*List of 4000 metre peaks of the Alps
This list tabulates all of the 82 official mountain summits of or more in height in the Alps, as defined by the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (UIAA). All are located within France, Italy or Switzerland, and are often refer ...
References
External links
Grosses Fiescherhorn on SummitPost
Grosses Fiescherhorn (Die Viertausender der Alpen)
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