Schreckhorn

Schreckhorn, Bernese Alps. View from Lazy Horn

The Nightmare horn is a four-thousand in the Bernese Alps and with a height of 4'078 m above sea level. M. the highest standing throughout the canton of Bern mountain. Geologically, the Schreckhorn for Aar Massif and consists of Erstfeldergneis.

  • 2.1 Albrecht von Haller
  • 2.2 Romance

Ascent

First ascent

The Schreckhorn is the mountaineering demanding four-thousand in the Bernese Alps. The first ascent was made on August 16, 1861 by Peter and Christian Michel, Leslie Stephen and Ulrich Kaufmann.

Routes

Starting point

Starting point for all routes is the Schreckhorn hut ( 2'529 m above sea level. M. ), accessible from Grindelwald ( 1'034 m above sea level. M. ).

Southwest ridge ( normal route )

  • Difficulty: ZS , III ( French scale: AD ; UIAA III with level rock climbing. )
  • Time required: 6-7 hours

Northwest ridge ( Andersongrat )

  • Difficulty: S ( Fr. scale: D)
  • Time required: 6-8 hours

South pillar

  • Difficulty: SS, V- ( French Scale: TD, with UIAA level rock climbing V-. )
  • Time: 8 ½ -9 ½ hours

Literary significance

Albrecht von Haller

The Nightmare Horn is one of the few mountains that at least the names were already in front of the classical age of alpinism in Europe by known and also input into the classical literature found: Well first it finds, and that is the only alpine peaks, mention in Albrecht von Haller's poem The Alpine 1729 (Chapter 1, sixth last song ).

In Haller Schreckhorn is an idealized center of the Alps, from which flow off the streams of Europe north and south into the sea. In reality, it only separates the Aare from the Lütschinen. The watershed towards the Mediterranean is located five kilometers to the southwest, and those to the Rhine and the Inn are 40 and 120 km to the east. Haller was born in Berne and toured the Alps in the years before the Constitution of the poem itself

Romantic

Around 1803, the fright Horn appears in a letter of Heinrich von Kleist in Thun at his sister.

1804 Schreckhorn appears in Friedrich Schiller's William Tell (v. 628), in addition to the roll-call mention of the Virgin, and the Glärnisch Hagge Spitz, a secondary summit of the little myths. However, Schiller was never in Switzerland, and it is doubtful whether he really knew more from fright horn as the name. The name was indeed well known to European intellectuals of his time from Haller's poem The Alps.

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