Handegg Falls

After passing the Handegg I hydro-electric station, the Grimsel Road takes two sharp bends and continues up through a further stretch of forest to the Handegg (Handeck) saddle, 150 m/492ft higher up. From a wider length of road there is a view of the Handegg falls, in which the gray-green waters of the Aare mingle with the silvery Aerlenbach, emerging below the road, and plunge into the chasm 46 m/151ft below. Soon after this, off the road to the right, is the Hotel Handeck (1,404 m/4,607ft). From here a cableway (for industrial use only) ascends the east side of the valley to the Gelmersee (1,849 m/6,067ft), an artificial lake formed by a dam 35 m/115ft high. The Grimsel road follows the valley bottom, strewn with boulders, and then