Tennbachlücke
The Tennbachlücke is a high alpine mountain crossing in the Bernese Alps .
It is located at an altitude of 3097 m above sea level. M. between the Sackhorn in the west and the Elwertätsch in the east and connects the Gastern Valley in the north ( Canton Bern ) with the Lötschental in the south ( Canton Valais ).
The first tourist crossing of the Tennbachlücke took place on August 5, 1894 by Edward Felix Mendelssohn Benecke and Henry Alfred Cohen.
Individual evidence
- ^ Thomas Antonietti, Werner Bellwald: In Fels und Firn: Mountain guides and mountaineers in the past and present. Lötschentaler Museum, Kippel 1994, p. 43.
Coordinates: 46 ° 27 ' N , 7 ° 47' E ; CH1903: 626,117 / 143618