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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A peak, 4,274 m (14,022 ft) high, of the Bernese Alps in south-central Switzerland. It is the highest elevation in the range.
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The Finsteraarhorn is the third most prominent peak in the Alps. Since 2001 the whole massif and surrounding glaciers are part of the
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The summits of Grünhorn and Finsteraarhorn are composed of green amphibolite, a very hard rock.
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Ranges from 900 meters (m) to 4,274 m (Finsteraarhorn).
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The summit ridge is one of the great watersheds of Europe with many peaks above 4,000 m: Jungfrau, Mönch, Aletschhorn, Fiescherhorner, Grünhorn and Finsteraarhorn.
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It covers wide mountain and glacial areas around the Bietschhorn, Aletschhorn, Jungfrau and Finsteraarhorn peaks.
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Finsteraarhorn, ‘it is clearer down below; the waters have shrunk, the forests are thinner.’
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Finsteraarhorn, ‘but there in the distance in the valleys are still spots, and something is moving.’
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‘Neither the Jungfrau nor the Finsteraarhorn has yet been trodden by the foot of man!’
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In the background are seen the two glacier currents emerging from different valleys; on the right from the Shreckhorn, and on the left from the Finsteraarhorn.
Ice and Glaciers 1909
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Blanc massif and the massif of the Finsteraarhorn: these sheets being the overthrown folds of the wrinkled sedimentary covering.
The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895
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