Bernina Pass

noun

1. a pass traversing Bernina Mountain, between SE Switzerland and N Italy. 7,640 feet (2,330 meters) high.

Bernina Pass

noun

1. a pass in the Alps between SE Switzerland and N Italy, east of Piz Bernina. Height: 2323 m (7622 ft)

Example Sentences

Paolo’s 2020 video of a run through the snowy Bernina Pass, edited and posted by Lorirocks777, has attracted 5.5 million views in nine months.

From Washington Post

From St. Moritz it is not easy to say what excursion or mountain tramp is the most enjoyable, but, if I were positively obliged to give my opinion, I think it would be in favor of the Bernina Pass and Palü Glacier.

From Project Gutenberg

But about the middle of the 19th century the Upper Engadine came into fashion as a great “air-cure,” and now Maloja, Sils, Silvaplana, Campfer and St Moritz are all well known; those who desire to explore the glaciers of the Bernina group mostly resort to Pontresina, on the Flatzbach, the stream descending from the Bernina Pass.

From Project Gutenberg

A little way below the junction of the two streams from. the Bernina Pass and the Heuthal the river flows through a channel cut by itself, and 20 or 30 feet in depth.

From Project Gutenberg

The wine-carriers—Weinf�hrer, as they are called—first scaled the Bernina pass, halting then as now, perhaps at Poschiavo and Pontresina.

From Project Gutenberg