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National Geographic : 1913 Aug
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EIGER, MONCH, AND JUNGFRAU Photo byS.G.Wehrli Some miles from the village of Brienz, in the Bernese Oberland, on the road to Grindelwald, standsamountain called The Little Scheidegg, noted for the magnificent panorama it affords of the Eiger (13,042 feet), Monch (13,468 feet), and Jungfrau (13,670 feet). Note thecharacteristic feature of all Alpine scenery shown in the picture, the three great glaciers flowing slowly, imperceptibly, yet surely down thesides ofthemoun tains. The hut in the foreground is one of the chalets or Sennhiitten, in which the herdsmen live during the time that thecattle are pastured on the mountain side in summer.
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