Schilthorn

The Schilthorn is a 2,971 metre high summit of the Bernese Alps, overlooking the valley of Lauterbrunnen in the Swiss canton of Bern. It is the highest mountain in the range lying north of the Sefinenfurgge Pass. The Schilthorn lies above the village of Mürren, from where a cable car leads to its summit.

It has a panoramic view which spans from the Titlis, Jungfrau, Mönch, Eiger, over the Bernese Alps and the Jura mountains up to the Vosges Mountains and the Black Forest. Mont Blanc is also just visible.

There are two ways to get to the Schilthorn from the valley floor:

(a) The first way is to take the cable cars from Stechelberg leaving to Gimmelwald and then onto Mürren. From Mürren another cable car is taken to Birg, which is the final change before the Schilthorn. This final cable airway is the longest and was the most technically challenging airway to be built.

(b) The other way up is to take the cable car from Lauterbrunnen to Grütschalp and a train to Murren, from where the cable car must be taken.

Between Birg and the summit, the cable car passes over Grauseeli, a small lake.

There is a panoramic revolving restaurant, named Piz Gloria, at the summit. The James Bond movie “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” was shot here.

This beautiful postcard came from Claudia (7 May 2014) Direct Swap Postcrossing.