Eiger
The Eiger is a 3,967-metre mountain of the Bernese Alps, overlooking Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, just north of the main watershed and border with Valais.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Eigerwand railway station and Eismeer railway station.
Eigerwand railway station
Railway station
Photo: Jackph, Public domain.
Eigerwand is a disused underground railway station in the municipality of Grindelwald in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. It is on the Jungfrau railway, which runs to the Jungfraujoch from Kleine Scheidegg.
Eismeer railway station
Railway stop
Photo: James Trosh, CC BY 2.0.
Eismeer railway station is an underground railway station bored into the mountain Eiger on the Jungfrau Railway, which runs to the Jungfraujoch from Kleine Scheidegg.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Grindelwald and Wengen.
Grindelwald
Grindelwald is a mountain village in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland. It's in the valley from Interlaken up to the pass of Grosse Scheidegg, a traditional cattle trail, and in Old High German grintil walt meant "barrier forest".
Wengen
Photo: Nikolai Karaneschev, CC BY 3.0.
Wengen is an Alpine resort in the Bernese Highlands of Switzerland. It's at 1,274 m above sea level, reached by cog railway and with no vehicle access, on the route up towards the Eiger and Jungfrau.
Lütschental
Village
Photo: Thisisbossi, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Lütschental is a village and a municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. Lütschental is situated 8 km northwest of Eiger.
Eiger
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 3,967 metres
- Description: mountain in the Bernese Alps, Switzerland
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Lauterbrunnen, Interlaken-Oberhasli, Canton of Bern, Bernese Highlands, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.57763° or 46° 34′ 40″ northLongitude
8.00547° or 8° 0′ 20″ eastElevation
3,967 metres (13,015 feet)Open location code
8FRCH2H4+35OpenStreetMap ID
node 31664302OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Eiger” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Eiger”
- Arabic: “إيجر”
- Arabic: “إيغير”
- Arabic: “يغير”
- Armenian: “Այգեր”
- Armenian: “Էյգեր”
- Basque: “Eiger”
- Belarusian: “Айгер”
- Bulgarian: “Айгер”
- Catalan: “Eiger”
- Cebuano: “Eiger (bukid sa Swisa)”
- Cebuano: “Eiger”
- Chinese: “艾格尔峰”
- Chinese: “艾格峰”
- Cornish: “Eiger”
- Czech: “Eiger”
- Danish: “Eiger”
- Dutch: “Eiger”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل ايجير”
- Esperanto: “Eiger”
- Estonian: “Eiger”
- Finnish: “Eiger”
- French: “Eiger”
- German: “Eiger”
- Greek: “Άιγκερ”
- Hebrew: “אייגר”
- Hungarian: “Eiger”
- Indonesian: “Eiger”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Eiger”
- Italian: “Eiger”
- Japanese: “アイガー”
- Korean: “아이거산”
- Ladin: “Eiger”
- Latin: “Eiger”
- Lithuanian: “Eigeris”
- Luxembourgish: “Eiger”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Eiger”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Eiger”
- Norwegian: “Eiger”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Eiger”
- Persian: “ایگر”
- Polish: “Eiger”
- Portuguese: “Eiger”
- Romanian: “Eiger”
- Romansh: “Eiger”
- Russian: “Айгер”
- Russian: “гора Айгер”
- Russian: “Эйгер”
- Sicilian: “Eiger”
- Slovak: “Eiger”
- Slovenian: “Eiger”
- Spanish: “Eiger”
- Swahili: “Eiger”
- Swedish: “Eiger”
- Swiss German: “Eiger”
- Thai: “เขาไอเกอร์”
- Tosk Albanian: “Eiger”
- Turkish: “Eiger Dağı”
- Ukrainian: “Айгер”
- Venetian: “Eiger”
- Vietnamese: “Eiger”
- Welsh: “Eiger”
- Western Frisian: “Eiger”
- Western Panjabi: “آیگر”
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Localities in the Area
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Highlights include Nördliches Eigerjoch and Grosser Turm.
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