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After Grindelwald, Kandersteg is the most important mountaineering centre of the chain. Again, several huts are accessible from the village, and climbs may be had on the various Blüemlisalp peaks as well as on the Balmhorn and Altels which rise to the south at the entrance to the Gasterntal.

Of the easier high summits of the Bernese Oberland, both Wildstrubel and Wildhorn should be mentioned. The Wildstrubel has as one of its major features the large snow-filled basin of the Plaine Morte, from which several tops rise. Climbed from either Kandersteg, Adelboden or Lenk, the Wildstrubel itself consists of a number of summits which barely rise above its southeastern glacier.

West of the Wildhorn massif comes Les Diablerets, a great lump of mountain at 3210m, across whose main summit runs the invisible boundary separating canton Bern from canton Vaud. Les Diablerets dominates a large area and is seen to great effect from the softer, more luxurious hillsides to the north, where tarns gleam in the sunshine, insects seethe among flower-strewn meadows and birds warble in the forests. Walkers’ country, this is, with views of lofty mountain peaks. Far away in the west a glimpse is to be had of the Dents du Midi and the distant snows of Mont Blanc. Big mountains all.