Diechterhorn
The Diechterhorn is a mountain in the Urner Alps, overlooking the Haslital in the Bernese Oberland. At 3,389 metres above sea level it is the highest summit of the Urner Alps lying within the canton of Bern.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Tieralplistock and Steinhüshorn.
Tieralplistock
Peak
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The Tieralplistock is a mountain of the Urner Alps, located on the border between the Swiss cantons of Bern and Valais. It lies between the Trift Glacier and the Rhone Glacier, just east of the lake of Gelmer.
Steinhüshorn
Peak
The Steinhüshorn is a mountain of the Urner Alps, overlooking Guttannen in the Bernese Oberland. It lies north of the Diechterhorn and west of the Trift Glacier.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Handeck and Gletsch.
Handeck
Locality
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Handeck is a village on the Grimsel pass road in the municipality of Guttannen, Switzerland. The village is located near the lake Gelmersee, which may be reached by Gelmerbahn from Handeck. There is a hotel and bridge at the village.
Gletsch
Hamlet
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Gletsch is a hamlet in the German-speaking half of the canton of Valais, located in the upper Rhone valley, called Obergoms, 2.5 kilometres, southeast below the Rhone Glacier's mouth and itself the headwaters of the Rhône. Gletsch is situated 10 km south of Diechterhorn.
Diechterhorn
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 3,387 metres
- Description: mountain in Switzerland
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Guttannen, Interlaken-Oberhasli, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.64811° or 46° 38′ 53″ northLongitude
8.36019° or 8° 21′ 37″ eastElevation
3,387 metres (11,112 feet)Open location code
8FRCJ9X6+63OpenStreetMap ID
node 12040710719OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Diechterhorn” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ديشتيرورن”
- Bulgarian: “Диечтерхорн”
- Cebuano: “Diechterhorn”
- Chinese: “迪希特山”
- Dutch: “Diechterhorn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل ديشتيرورن”
- French: “Diechterhoren”
- Georgian: “დიხტერჰორნი”
- Japanese: “ディーヒターホルン”
- Ladin: “Diechterhorn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Diechterhorn”
- Persian: “دیشترهورن”
- Polish: “Diechterhorn”
- Spanish: “Diechterhorn”
- Swedish: “Diechterhorn”
- Western Panjabi: “ڈیچٹر ہارن”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Trifthütte SAC and Rotloui.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Diechterlimi and Diechtergletscher.
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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 “Diechterhorn”. Photo: Nikater, Public domain.