{{short description|Mountain in Switzerland}} {{Infobox mountain | name = Eggishorn | image = Eggishorn, Berner Alpen, Wallis, Switzerland, from southwest.jpg | image_size = 285 | image_caption = Eggishorn viewed from southwest | elevation_m = 2927 | elevation_ref = | prominence_m = 563 | prominence_ref = <ref>Retrieved from the Swisstopo topographic maps. The key col is located east of the Märjelensee at 2,364 metres.</ref> | listing = Alpine mountains 2500-2999 m | map = Switzerland | map_caption = Location in Switzerland | parent_peak = Finsteraarhorn | location = Valais, Switzerland | range = Bernese Alps | coordinates = {{coord|46|25|53|N|8|05|39|E|type:mountain_region:CH_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | range_coordinates = | topo = | type = | age = | first_ascent = | easiest_route = Aerial tramway }}
The '''Eggishorn''' is a mountain in the southeastern part of the Bernese Alps, located north of Fiesch in the Swiss canton of Valais. A cable car station is located on a secondary summit named ''Fiescherhorli'' (2,893 m), 500 metres south of the main peak.
The Eggishorn lies within the Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn region, which in 2001 was designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. On its northern flank is the Aletsch Glacier. From the summit the view extends also to the Lepontine and Pennine Alps (Dom, Matterhorn, Weisshorn).
Together with Fiescherhorli and Bettmerhorn, Eggishorn forms a ridge, running in a direction from north-northeast to south-southwest, with steep slopes on both sides, facing Aletsch Glacier in the west and the mountain plateau of Fiescheralpe above the Rhone valley in the east. In terms of its geology, this mountain ridge is part of the metamorphic coat of the granitic Aarmassif; predominant rock types are gneiss and schist.
==Pictures== {{wide image|Eggishorn panorama.jpg|800px|Panorama Picture from the Eggishorn to the North and the West and the Aletsch Glacier||none}} <gallery> Image:Aletch glacier view from Eggishorn observation point.jpg Image:Eggishorn summit.jpg|Eggishorn Terminus {{convert|2926|m|ft|0}} Image:Eggishorn 83.JPG|Aerial tramway Fiesch Eggishorn (FE) Image:Eggishorn, Schuttfeld unterr dem Gipfel.jpg|Gipfel des Eggishorns mit Schuttfeld unterhalb </gallery>
==See also== *List of mountains of Switzerland accessible by public transport
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== External links == {{Commons category|Eggishorn}} *[http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/rock/154670/Eggishorn.html Eggishorn on Summitpost] *[http://www.hikr.org/dir/Eggishorn_1499/ Eggishorn on Hikr] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20071204081815/http://www.myswitzerland.com/en/offer-Travel_Gettingaround-Cableways-28360.html Eggishorn, the mountain of views] *[http://www.eggishorn.ch/jwa/de/home.jsp Fiesch Eggishorn cable car (FE)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150707175254/http://www.eggishorn.ch/jwa/de/home.jsp |date=2015-07-07 }}
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