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<<“This picture was painted by a Japanese woman (I cannot ask her because she is not alive now).”>>
Looks Indeed, like a painting…highly stylized.
Maybe as attached?
Slowpoke
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Hi sunnyrosa, and welcome to MySwissAlps!
Here you will find a list of mountains in Switzerland and their height.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ List_of_mountains_of_S witzerland
What is your purpose in discovering the location depicted in the painting? If you are looking for places in Switzerland with stunning mountain scenery, and where the average person can ascend to the top of mountains in cable cars etc, we could give you plenty of information where to go for that sort of experience.
Depending on the weather of the day, you could also have the experience of looking down on the cloud deck from above, with mountain peaks visible above the cloud deck (as in the painting), but that’s something that’s weather-related, and can’t be planned for.
Alpenrose
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Hi Slowpoke,
Thank you for your reply!
Her picture and the photo you posted are very similar!
I’m going to take a closer look on them.
Thank you!
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Hi Alpenrose,
Thank you for your reply!
I appreciate the link to a detailed website.
The woman who painted the picture wrote many books, and my mother is a big fan of her.
My mother wants to figure out the mountain she climbed.
I visited Switzerland with my family five years ago.
We went to Grindelwald, First and Schilthorn.
The sceneries were great!
We are still looking at the photos from the trip!
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That painting could really be of anywhere, but I just noticed quite a resemblance of the rocks to the picture of Pilatus on this page:
http://www.myswissalps.com/pi latus
Alpenrose
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<<“That painting could really be of anywhere, but I just noticed quite a resemblance of the rocks to the picture of Pilatus on this page”>>
Agree-
but the pylon for a ski lift or gondelbahn doesn’t fit there, does it?
Slowpoke
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The rocks are very similar to the ones in the picture.
My mother is saying she is familiar with the name Pilatus.
Thank you!
sunnyrosa
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That is a point we can consider too.
sunnyrosa
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Could the word on the corner be “Brienz”? Quite close to the Jungfrau region.
map.search.ch/?pos=646059,178545&z=25 6
Slowpoke
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Now I see the word in those blurry letters!
I’m going to search for any photos taken in Brienz which look like the picture.
sunnyrosa
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Hi SDunny rosa.
I don’t recall and cableways near Brienz which could match the pylon in the painting. I just checked some maps.
I wonder if the image is not a strict representation….?
The cog-rail railroad is well known.
Slowpoke
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Are we talking about the signature at the bottom right or other letters I’m not seeing? 🙂 It says Dmitri.
Any chance it is the Schreckhorn? It is a little high at 4000 meters though.
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It could be the Eiger seen from Männlichen, with Tschuggen on the right, or the Weisshorn. Climbing the Eiger (challenging climbing) or the Pilatus (funicular) are two very different things. Your mother should remember.
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Oh, but the Weisshorn is 4505 m above sea level.
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Are you referring to the thing in the bottom left?
I’ve been thinking it is a climbing stick. Isn’t it…?
sunnyrosa
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Hi Lucas,
Thank you for your reply!
Yes, we are talking about the handwriting on the bottom right corner.
> It says Dmitri.
So the handwriting might not be the name of the location.
> Any chance it is the Schreckhorn? It is a little high at 4000 meters though.
In my first post I wrote she had climbed a mountain of 3,500m, but now I admit it was a little confusing.
I should have written that she climbed as high as 3,500m.
It might be the case that she gave up halfway through at 3,500m while the mountain was higher.
sunnyrosa
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Hi Snowman,
Thank you for your reply!
I’ve found out that my use of the phrase “a mountain of 3,500m” in my first post was not quite right.
She might have given up at 3,500m on a mountain which is higher than 3,500m.
sunnyrosa
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I really appreciate all these comments and replies!
The link in my first post leads to a website with the original image.
(It takes a long time to load the page, though.)
The original image shows three pictures.
Each picture has a signature on the bottom.
My mother said those three handwritings were the three different names of three different locations, and all she wanted to figure out was the name of the place in the picture in the center.
So I cropped the image for clarification before I attached it to my first post.
But now I think the handwriting in the picture on the right resembles the one we have been talking about.
So the picture on the right seems important too.
Now I post the original image.
Thank you.
sunnyrosa
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The blurry writing is now clearly “Dmitri.” Thanks for the better image. Lucas has sharp eyes.
Thanks to Snowman’s hints-
See attached
The mountain on the left is surely the Eiger. The peak is distinctive. To the right at the back is probably the Mönch but might be (in a non-realistic painting) the Jungfrau.
Note the pylon in some of the images.
Some images show a broader perspective to put the image in place.
Slowpoke
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< The mountain on the left is surely the Eiger. >
I’m not so sure, really. But what puzzles me most is how can someone who climbed the Eiger not remember it. Unless you are one of a dozen world top climbers, you would not climb the Eiger alone, you would hire a guide, use a rope, a helmet, a harness, etc.. I don’t know the particulars of Sunnyrosa’s mother, but “normally” she should remember.