* 2005 Wengernalp station platforms were extended from 127 m to 181 m usable length.

It can be reached on foot, by Wengernalpbahn ( WAB ) to Wengernalp railway station from Wengen or by skiing from Kleine Scheidegg.

The Wengernalp Bahn was founded.

Amongst the many historical, famous people who have spent holidays on the Wengernalp are Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Abraham Lincoln, Richard Wagner and Peter Tchaikovsky.

Badeker and v. Fellenberg, with two guides of Grindelwald, and others, reached the summit from the Wengernalp.

The alphorn or alpenhorn or alpine horn is a labrophone, consisting of a wooden natural horn of conical bore, having a wooden cup-shaped mouthpiece, used by mountain dwellers in Switzerland and elsewhere.

The arctic fox has a circumpolar range, meaning that it is found throughout the entire Arctic, including the outer edges of Greenland, Russia, Canada, Alaska, and Svalbard, as well as in Subarctic and alpine areas, such as Iceland and mainland alpine Scandinavia.

The climate is hot and humid in the river basin and cool and dry in the southern highlands, with a cold, alpine climate in the Ruwenzori Range.

Romansh came to be a written language, and therefore it is recognized as a language, even though it is very close to the Lombardic alpine dialects.

Slalom is an alpine skiing discipline, involving skiing between poles ( gates ) spaced much closer together than in Giant Slalom, Super-G or Downhill, thereby causing quicker and shorter turns.

The treeline is at approximately 950 meters, above which is alpine shrubland and grassland, dominated by temperate Magellanic vegetation such as Acaena, Dicksonia, Drimys, Empetrum, Gunnera, Myrteola, Pernettya, and Ugni.

Transport in Kyrgyzstan is severely constrained by the country's alpine topography.

Then there is a cold zone to ( treeline ), a subarctic or alpine zone to and fully arctic climate above that.

The climate of New Mexico is generally semi-arid to arid, though there are areas of continental and alpine climates, and its territory is mostly covered by mountains, high plains, and desert.

The Pyrenees are relatively as rich in endemic species as the Alps, and among the most remarkable instances of that endemism is the occurrence of the monotypic genus Xatardia ( family Apiaceae ), only on a high alpine pass between the Val d ' Eynes and Catalonia.

Franco-Provençal is also spoken by another minority in the alpine heights of the Province of Turin.

Torsion box designs continue to dominate cross-country ski designs, but is less common for alpine and ski touring.

The Alpine touring ski is a modified lightweight downhill ski with an alpine touring binding.

The type of ski is mainly used with alpine touring boots, which are rigid but lighter than downhill skiing boots, but may be fixed with a binding suitable for skiing in technical mountaineering boots.

Of the agricultural land, 4. 6 % is used for growing crops and 12. 9 % is pastures and 22. 9 % is used for alpine pastures.

Damage usually derives from a common underestimation of mud-debris flows: in the alpine valleys, for example, bridges are frequently destroyed by the impact force of the flow because their span is usually calculated only for a water discharge.

The butterfly loop, also known as lineman's loop, butterfly knot, alpine butterfly knot and lineman's rider, is a knot used to form a fixed loop in the middle of a rope.

The climate of Epirus is mediterranean along the coast and alpine in the interior.

Alternatively, alpine skiers may pursue the sport in less controlled environments ; this practice is variously referred to as ski touring, backcountry skiing, or extreme skiing.

The Great Mere is now drained and forms a meadow, but would originally have been a large lake covering around, dammed by the Tiltyard causeway.

This is particularly true of meadow marsh ( also known as wet meadow wetlands ); for example, in Eel Bay near Alexandria Bay, regulation of lake levels has resulted in large losses of wet meadow.

Another interpretation of the name Vinland, quite popular in the late 20th century, is that the first element is not vín ( with a slightly lengthened vowel sound ) but vin ( with a short sound ), an Old Norse word with the meaning ' meadow, pasture '.

A cognate name also existed in Old English ( Anglo-Saxon ), in the name of the village Woolland in Dorset, England: this was written " Winlande " in the 1086 Domesday Book, and it is interpreted as ' meadow land ' or ' pasture land '.

T. medium, meadow or zigzag clover, a perennial with straggling flexuous stems and rose-purple flowers, is of little agricultural value.

The long meadow astride the Colnbrook leading down to the river is known to this day as " Bloody Meadow ".

The dolmen is set in an open, sloping ( higher – left, lower – right ) meadow of uncut grass, with trees to the rear in the middle distance.

' Johnson's Blue ' is a hybridisation between G. himalayense ( southwestern China ), with G. pratense ( European meadow cranesbill ).

Erythronium ( fawn-lily, trout-lily, dog's-tooth violet, adder's-tongue ) is a genus of 20-30 species of spring-flowering perennial plants with long, tooth-like bulbs and attractive pendant flowers, native to forest and meadow in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.

Though some true crocus bloom with the fall ( autumnal ) rains, after summer's heat and drought, the name autumn crocus is often used as a common name for Colchicum, which is in the lily family ( Liliaceae ), and which has six stamens ; it is also known as meadow saffron, though unlike true saffron, the plant is toxic.

Limonite is named from the Greek word for meadow ( λειμών ), in allusion to its occurrence as bog iron ore in meadows and marshes.

" Prairie is the French word for meadow, but the ultimate root is the Latin pratum ( same meaning ).

It is elsewhere called Abel-maim, meadow of the waters, ( 2 Chronicles 16: 4 ).

Abel-mizraim ( the " meadow of Egypt ", or " mourning of Egypt ") is a place " beyond ," or west, of the Jordan river, at the " threshing-floor of Atad.

The most famous mention of Iacchus is in The Frogs by Aristophanes, where the Mystae ( mystics ) invoke him as a riotous dancer in the meadow, attended by the Charites, who " tosses torches " and is likened to a star bringing light to the darkness of the rites.

In the foreground is one or two serpents crawling toward the genius through a meadow motif.

In Norse mythology, Fólkvangr (" field of the host " or " people-field " or " army-field ") is a meadow or field ruled over by the goddess Freyja where half of those that die in combat go upon death, while the other half go to the god Odin in Valhalla.