mittelegi

Updated: May 8, 2025

Suddenly the songs ceased, and my travelling companions uttered those exclamations, familiar to Alpine populations, which re-echoed from rock to rock. They had caught sight of a hunter, gliding phantom-like along the steep ascent of the Mittelegi, like a swallow lost in space. But in vain they pursued him with cries and questions; he continued to move silently along the black rock.

W. H. Davenport Adams - Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century

"I descended from my sedan-chair when we arrived at an imprint in the marble rock known as 'Martinsdruck. The gigantic peaks of the Schreckhorn, the Eiger, the Kischhorn, rose around us, almost overwhelming us with their grandeur. To the right, the Mittelegi, a spur of the Eiger, elevated its bare and polished sides.

W. H. Davenport Adams - Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century