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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A range of the Alps in south-central Switzerland rising to 4,274 m (14,022 ft).
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Examples
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The 52-year-old Loretan died Thursday while guiding a client up the summit ridge of the Gruenhorn in the Bernese Alps.
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The 52-year-old Loretan died Thursday while guiding a client up the summit ridge of the Gruenhorn in the Bernese Alps.
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The cogwheel railway climbs 4,550 feet through the Bernese Alps and takes passengers to an altitude of 11,225 feet to Europe's highest train station, offering views of the alpine landscape.
Swiss Franc's Climb Puts a Chill on Tourism Goran Mijuk 2011
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Perched on the banks of a small, glacial lake surrounded by the sheer, rocky cliffs of the Bernese Alps on all sides, Le Râleur was one of the most beautiful villages Harvath or Jillian had ever seen.
Blowback Brad Thor 2005
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Harvath and Alcott arrived at the Aéroport de Sion posing as climbers looking to charter a plane in order to conduct aerial surveys for a series of upcoming expeditions in the Bernese Alps.
Blowback Brad Thor 2005
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Perched on the banks of a small, glacial lake surrounded by the sheer, rocky cliffs of the Bernese Alps on all sides, Le Râleur was one of the most beautiful villages Harvath or Jillian had ever seen.
Blowback Brad Thor 2005
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Harvath and Alcott arrived at the Aéroport de Sion posing as climbers looking to charter a plane in order to conduct aerial surveys for a series of upcoming expeditions in the Bernese Alps.
Blowback Brad Thor 2005
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The old hotel sat on the highest shoulder of the little plateau that held the town of Wengen against the Jungfrau, "the Maiden," queen-mountain of all the Bernese Alps.
Doctor’s Orders Diane Duane 2000
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Adjacent to a Turkish cafe, the _Panorama of the Bernese Alps_ was on exhibition.
By Water to the Columbian Exposition Johanna S. Wisthaler
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From these indications, geologists have been able to prove that the glaciers of Chamouni, of Monte Rosa, of the St. Gotthard, and the Bernese Alps, formerly penetrated through the valley of the Arve, the Rhone, the Aar, and the Rhine to the more level part of Switzerland and the Jura, where they have deposited their boulders at a height of more than a thousand feet above the present level of the lake of Neufchatel.
Ice and Glaciers 1909
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