BERNESE OBERLAND, SWISS ALPS : On the summit of the EIGER (3970m.) - James Kagami raises the Kenyan flag after making the first Kenyan ( probably first black African ) ascent of the Mittelligi Arete, September 1991. re: 1012383.021
La Gruyère, Swiss mountain, alp, alps, Switzerland, aerial photography, horizontal panorama, panoramic, long format, Ulrich Ackermann, langformat, Tsermon, Tête de l'Herbette, Vanil Noir, Bernese Alps,
A deep steep-side gorge cut by melt-water as a glacier retreated after the ice ages. This particular gorge has a board-walk for visitor access near the bottom.
The Schreckhorn mountain in the Swiss Alps, close to the Eiger and Jungfrau. The Oberer Grindelwaldgletscher is seen to the left of it, and the Unterer Grindelwaldgletscher is in the valley to the right.
Long famed as a winter tourist destination with slopes for beginners, intermediates and the challenges of the Eiger glacier for the experienced, there are activities for the non-skiers, from tobogganing to groomed winter hiking tracks. It is the usual starting point for ascents of the Eiger and the Wetterhorn. Nowadays Grindelwald is also a popular summer activity resort with many miles of hiking trails across the Alps
BERNESE OBERLAND, SWISS ALPS : elderly hikers on the old moraine of the Eiger Gletscher above Wengernalp. The Lauterbrunnen Valley lies below. ref ; 1004664.021 (12.4/1/4 (2)