Balmhorn
The Balmhorn is a mountain in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland. Its summit ridge lies on the border between the cantons of Bern and the Valais. It was first climbed by Frank Walker, Horace Walker and Lucy Walker, with guides Jakob Anderegg and Melchior Anderegg on 21 July 1864.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Telnet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Altels and Lötschberg.
Altels
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Altels is a mountain of the Bernese Alps, located on the border between the Swiss cantons of Bern and Valais. It is situated in the Balmhorn massif, approximately halfway between Kandersteg and Leukerbad.
Lötschberg
Mountain saddle
Photo: Walter Mittelholzer, Public domain.
The Lötschberg is an Alpine mountain massif, usually associated with a major, historically important transit axis of the Alps in Switzerland with, at its core, the Lötschen Pass.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lauchernalp and Kippel.
Lauchernalp
Village
Lauchernalp is an alp and resort area in the Swiss Alps, located in the canton of Valais. It sits on a sunny terrace, between 1,900 and 2,100 metres above sea level, overlooking the Lötschental above Wiler.
Kippel
Village
Photo: Mo4jolo, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Kippel is a municipality in the district of Raron in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Wiler
Village
Photo: Mo4jolo, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Wiler is a municipality in the district of Raron in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Balmhorn
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 3,698 metres
- Description: mountain in Switzerland
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Leukerbad, Leuk District, Valais, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.42473° or 46° 25′ 29″ northLongitude
7.69359° or 7° 41′ 37″ eastElevation
3,698 metres (12,133 feet)Open location code
8FR9CMFV+VCOpenStreetMap ID
node 31664301OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Balmhorn” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بالمورن”
- Bulgarian: “Балмхорн”
- Catalan: “Balmhorn”
- Cebuano: “Balmhorn”
- Chinese: “巴爾姆峰”
- Czech: “Balmhorn”
- Dutch: “Balmhorn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل بالمورن”
- French: “Balmhorn”
- Georgian: “ბალმჰორნი”
- German: “Balmhorn”
- Hebrew: “באלמהורן”
- Italian: “Balmhorn”
- Ladin: “Balmhorn”
- Mingrelian: “ბალმჰორნი”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Balmhorn”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Balmhorn”
- Persian: “بالم هورن”
- Polish: “Balmhorn”
- Portuguese: “Balmhorn”
- Russian: “Балмхорн”
- Spanish: “Balmhorn”
- Swahili: “Balmhorn”
- Swedish: “Balmhorn”
- Venetian: “Balmhorn”
- Western Panjabi: “بالمہارن”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Balmhorn”. Photo: Telnet, CC BY-SA 3.0.