The Oberaarjoch Hut (

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: ''Oberaarjochhütte'') is a

mountain hut A mountain hut is a building located at high elevation, in mountainous terrain, generally accessible only by foot, intended to provide food and shelter to mountaineering, mountaineers, climbing, climbers and Hiking, hikers. Mountain huts are us ...

of the

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, located north of

Fieschertal Fieschertal is a village and municipality in the district of Goms in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Besides the village of Fieschertal, the municipality includes the nearby hamlets of Wichul, Zer Flie and Wirbul. History Fieschertal is f ...

in the canton of

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, close to the canton of

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. The hut lies at a height of 3,258 metres above sea level at the foot of the

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, just above the Oberaarjoch, the glacier pass connecting the

Fiescher Glacier The Fiescher Glacier (''Fieschergletscher'' in German) is a valley glacier on the south side of the Bernese Alps in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. in length, it is the second longest glacier in the Alps. The glacier covers an area of . The ...

from the

Oberaar Glacier The Oberaargletscher (), literally "Upper Aare-Glacier", is a long glacier (2005) situated in the Bernese Alps in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. In 1973 it had an area of . The lower end of this glacier lies almost 400 m higher than th ...

. All accesses to the hut involve glacier crossing.

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