Tschingel Pass

Tschingelpass from Kanderfirn, in the background Gspaltenhorn and Tschingelspitz

The Tschingelpass is a high alpine mountain crossing in the Bernese Alps .

It connects at an altitude of 2774  m above sea level. M. the Kanderfirn in the southwest ( Kandersteg municipality ) with the Tschingelfirn in the northeast ( Lauterbrunnen municipality ).

The first tourist crossing of the Tschingel Pass took place in 1790 by Johann Rudolf Meyer junior from Lauterbrunnen.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Leaves for Bernese history, art and antiquity, 1914 (10), booklet 4, p. 271.

Coordinates: 46 ° 29 '  N , 7 ° 49'  E ; CH1903:  628970  /  one hundred forty-eight thousand nine hundred eighty-nine