oberaar

Updated: May 4, 2025

We attempt therefore, no analysis of her works, but proceed to speak of her mountaineering experiences: the most important is the ascent of the Mönch, a summit of the Jungfrau system one of the lofty snow-clad peaks which enclose the ice-rivers of the Oberaar and the Unteraar. We shall allow Madame Dora d'Istria to conduct us in person through the difficulties of so arduous an enterprise.

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

They left the hospice of the Grimsel on the 27th of August, at four o'clock in the morning. Crossing the Col of the Oberaar they descended to the snowy plateau which feeds the Viescher glacier. In this grand amphitheatre, walled in by the peaks of the Viescherhorner, they rested for their midday meal.

Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz - Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence