The Hinter Tierberg is a 3,445 metres high
mountain
A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually higher t ...
in the
Uri Alps, located on the border between the cantons of
Bern and
Uri. It overlooks the
Trift Glacier
The Trift Glacier (german: Triftgletscher) is a long glacier (2005) in the Urner Alps near Gadmen, in the extreme east of the canton Berne in Switzerland.
Morphology
In 1973 glacier was 5.75 km long, 3 km wide at the top and around 500 m w ...
on its west side and the
Chelen Glacier on its east side.
The massif of the Tierberg consists of several mountains, they are (from north to south):
Vorder Tierberg (3,091 metres),
Mittler Tierberg
The Hinter Tierberg is a 3,445 metres high mountain in the Uri Alps, located on the border between the cantons of Bern and Uri. It overlooks the Trift Glacier on its west side and the Chelen Glacier on its east side.
The massif of the Tierb ...
(3,418 metres) and Hinter Tierberg.
The Hinter Tierberg is connected to the south to the higher
Dammastock by a ridge whose lowest point is approximately 3,260 metres.
In August 2016, a
Swiss Air Force
The Swiss Air Force (german: Schweizer Luftwaffe; french: Forces aériennes suisses; it, Forze aeree svizzere; rm, Aviatica militara svizra) is the air component of the Swiss Armed Forces, established on 31 July 1914 as a part of the army an ...
F/A-18
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fighter crashed close to the mountain.
References
External links
Hinter Tierberg on Hikr
Mountains of the Alps
Alpine three-thousanders
Mountains of Switzerland
Mountains of the canton of Uri
Mountains of the canton of Bern
Bern–Uri border
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