First
The First is a mountain of the Bernese Alps, overlooking Kandersteg, in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. First overlooks of the surrounding alpine landscape, including the peaks of the Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Caumasee, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kloster Dhammapala and Golitschenpass.
Kloster Dhammapala
Buddhist temple
Photo: Felix1, Public domain.
Kloster Dhammapala is a Buddhist temple.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mitholz and Adelboden.
Mitholz
Hamlet
Photo: Draemmli, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mitholz or Blausee-Mitholz is a village in Kandergrund municipality in the canton of Bern in Switzerland, with 170 inhabitants as of 2020. Blausee-Mitholz is a station on the Lötschberg railway line.
Adelboden
Village
Photo: Barbe-sauvage, CC0.
Adelboden is a mountain village and a municipality in Switzerland, located in the Frutigen-Niedersimmental administrative district in the Bernese Highlands.
Frutigen
Photo: Chriusha, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Frutigen is a town of 6,900 people in the Swiss Canton of Berne and the site of the northern portal of the Lötschberg-Base-Tunnel that opened for railway traffic in 2007.
First
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,548 metres
- Description: mountain overlooking Kandersteg, Switzerland
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Kandersteg, Frutigen-Niedersimmental, Canton of Bern, Bernese Highlands, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.50479° or 46° 30′ 17″ northLongitude
7.64296° or 7° 38′ 35″ eastElevation
2,548 metres (8,360 feet)Open location code
8FR9GJ3V+W5OpenStreetMap ID
node 1674465689OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“First” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فيرست”
- Cebuano: “First”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل فيرست (سويسرا)”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل فيرست”
- Ladin: “First”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “First i Kandersteg”
- Persian: “فرست (کنددرستگ)”
- Persian: “فرست”
- Swedish: “First”
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