Titlis

Summit · cantons of Bern and Obwalden · 3238 m

Glacier and suspension bridge above Engelberg.

From the basket

Above Engelberg, the Titlis forms a long limestone ridge running east to west, capped with snow and ice. It peaks at 3,238 metres. From the balloon it towers over both the village and the Jochpass, a pass at more than two thousand two hundred metres that leads towards the Bernese Oberland.

It is a very accessible summit. A cable car climbs from Engelberg in several stages, by way of the Gerschnialp and Lake Trübsee, to the Klein Titlis, a little over three thousand metres up; on the last section the cabin turns on itself to give a full view. A large telecommunications tower also stands on the Klein Titlis.

From the top of the ridge, the gaze runs off to the peaks of the Oberland, sweeps over the Swiss Plateau and drops onto the arms of Lake Lucerne.

Fly slowly along the ridge, from one end to the other, then let the wind bring you back to the Engelberg valley and its monastery.

Did you know?

Around 1740, two monks of Engelberg monastery, Ignatius Hess and Josef Eugen Wasser, climbed to the summit. It is the earliest ascent of the summit of which a record survives.

Sources: Wikipedia, “Titlis”.

All around

• Lake Lucerne, 18 km to the north-east
• Rhône Glacier, 20 km to the south
• Pilatus, 2128 m, 27 km to the north-west