Jungfraujoch

View from the southward side of the pass

The Jungfraujoch is a col or saddle betwixt the Mönch together with the Jungfrau inwards the Bernese Alps on the boundary betwixt the cantons of Bern together with Valais, within the Jungfrau-Aletsch Protected Area.

Strictly, the Jungfraujoch is the lowest squall for on the mount ridge betwixt Mönch together with Jungfrau, at 3,471 meters (11,388 ft). It is simply inwards a higher house this location that the mount station of Jungfraubahn is located, Jungfraujoch railway station, which at an elevation of 3,454 meters (11,332 ft) is the highest railway station inwards Europe. The Jungfraujoch is oft called the "Top of Europe" inwards tourist literature.
View of the Eiger, Mönch, Jungfraujoch (centre-right) together with Jungfrau

The Sphinx (3,571 meters (11,716 ft)) is a peak that lies simply to the eastward of the col. It begins from the Jungfraujoch on the Valais side together with at the Great Aletsch Glacier. There is an get upward to its summit, where a pocket-size viewing platform together with a scientific observatory, the Sphinx Observatory, are located. Europe's highest radio relay station, the Richtfunkstation Jungfraujoch, is installed atop the ridge to the westward of the railway station.
 The due north side of the pass

The Jungfraujoch houses 1 of the Global Atmosphere Watch's atmospheric interrogation stations. The Jungfraujoch tin exclusively live on reached through a 7.3 km long cog railway tunnel, served past times the Jungfraubahn, the highest inwards a serial of cooperating railway companies that render access to the Jungfraujoch from Interlaken.
 The Mönchsjoch Hut trail

Jungfraujoch railway
HistoryAdolf Guyer-Zeller starting fourth dimension thought of the thought of a tunnel inwards 1893 together with at that squall for he had planned to direct maintain vii stations within the tunnel earlier reaching what is instantly the Sphinx. The edifice of the tunnel started on July 27, 1896 together with took xvi years to complete. The structure stage was troubled past times many problems including monetary shortages, inclement weather condition together with mounting deaths due to structure accidents. The worst accident occurred inwards 1908, when thirty tons of dynamite accidentally exploded.
 View from the pass

Once structure was halted, the tunnel reached exclusively to the peak of the Jungfraujoch, rather than the Sphinx, alongside exclusively 2 intermediate stations. However, fifty-fifty inwards its electrical flow state, the Jungfraubahn is a meaning achievement inwards applied scientific discipline together with construction, yet asset the championship for highest railway inwards Europe.
 The Jungfraujoch railway station at 3,450 meters (11,320 ft) inwards a higher house body of body of water level

Railway
The prepare into the mount leaves from Kleine Scheidegg, which tin live on reached past times trains from Grindelwald together with Lauterbrunnen. The prepare enters the tunnel running eastward through the Eiger presently after leaving Kleine Scheidegg.

It runs unopen behind the Eiger's due north face, stopping at Eigerwand, where at that spot is a window virtually 8 1000 long together with a metre high, halfway upward the face. The windows direct maintain been placed inwards holes used to take away excavated stone from the tunnel during construction, together with are also occasionally used equally access points to rescue climbers. This window was used for 1 of the concluding scenes of a Clint Eastwood spy film the The Eiger Sanction. There 1 tin become off the prepare to admire the persuasion earlier the prepare continues v minutes later. The tunnel together with then turns west, heading towards the Jungfrau. There is a 2d destination at a window looking out on the Eismeer ("Sea of Ice") earlier the prepare continues to the Jungfraujoch. The tunnel was constructed betwixt 1898 together with 1912; it is virtually vii kilometers (4.3 mi) long, alongside gradients of upward to 25%. The journeying from Kleine Scheidegg to Jungfraujoch takes around 50 minutes including the stops at Eigerwand together with Eismeer; the downhill render journeying taking exclusively 35 minutes.

The Jungfraujoch complex plays an of import business office inwards John Christopher's The Tripods novels.






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