Schilthorn

Infobox Mountain
Name=Schilthorn
Photo=Piz Gloria.jpg| Caption= Restaurant Piz Gloria on the summit
Elevation=convert|2970|m|ft|0
Location=Bernese Oberland, Switzerland
Range = Bernese Alps
Prominence = convert|363|m|ft|0|abbr=on
latd= 46|latm=33 |lats=26 |latNS=N
longd=7 |longm=50 |longs=07 |longEW=E
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Coordinates = coord|46|33|26|N|7|50|07|E|region:CH-BE_type:mountain|display=inline,title
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Schilthorn is a 2,970 metre high summit in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland, above Mürren.

It has a panorama, 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.

To get to the Schilthorn from the valley floor either of a series of cable cars must be taken. The cable cars begin in 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. The other way up is to take the cable car from Lauterbrunnen to Grütschalp and a train to Muerren, from where the cable car must be taken. There is a panoramic revolving restaurant, named "Piz Gloria", at the summit, which is where the James Bond movie "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" was set. A famous black ski run featured in the film starts at the summit and leads down to the Engetal below Birg. The restaurant revolves a full 360 degrees in 55 minutes.

During the summer the Inferno Triathlon finishs at the summit after a run up from the Lauterbrunnen valley.

External links

* [http://www.Schilthorn.ch/ Schilthorn - Piz Gloria]
* [http://www.swisspanorama.com/ Live Webcam at Schilthorn]
* [http://www.inferno.ch Inferno Triathlon]
* [http://www.badische-seiten.de/impressionen/index.php?action=showgallery&pfad=Schilthorn Schilthorn: Pictures]