Weather gap

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

It is located at an altitude of 3169  m above sea level. M. between the Tschingelhorn in the west and the Breithorn in the east and connects the Lauterbrunnen valley in the north ( canton Bern ) with the Lötschental in the south ( canton Wallis ).

The first tourist crossing of the weather gap took place on July 22, 1864 by Adolphus Warburton Moore , Christian Almer and Antoine Eggel from the south.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gottlieb Studer : About ice and snow: The highest peaks in Switzerland and the history of their ascent. I. Department: Northern Alps. Schmid, Francke & Co., Bern 1896, p. 381.

Coordinates: 46 ° 29 '  N , 7 ° 51'  E ; CH1903:  632224  /  one hundred forty-seven thousand four hundred and seventy-two