An Insight Into the “Berglihütte” in 1908: Grindelwald Mountain Guides – Frozen for the Star Photographer

Authors

Karl Horat

Keywords

Berglihütte Swiss Alpine Club, Jungfrau Railway Eismeer Station, Herbert G. Ponting photography, Bernese Alps mountain guides

Abstract

We are in 1908, inside the “Berglihütte”, which had been built by the Grindelwald section of the Swiss Alpine Club almost forty years earlier. Since then, it has been perched like an eagle’s nest on a rocky ridge in the middle of the sea of ice at an altitude of around 3,300 meters.

Recommended Citation

Horat, Karl (2025) "An Insight Into the “Berglihütte” in 1908: Grindelwald Mountain Guides – Frozen for the Star Photographer," Swiss American Historical Society Review: Vol. 61: No. 2, Article 5.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sahs_review/vol61/iss2/5