Jungfrau

Jungfrau ('the Maiden'), a magnificent peak of the Bernese Alps, attains a height of 13,671 feet. It received its name either from the unsullied purity and dazzling brightness of the snow by which it is covered, or from the fact that no traveller had ever reached its highest point. Its summit was first ascended by two Swiss gentlemen, named Meyer, in 1811. In 1890 a railway from Lauterbrunnen to its summit was projected.