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From the Iffigenalp, a hiking trail leads through the forest and then along paths blasted into the rock to the pass. Together with the many waterfalls and the plateau, I found this pass to be magnificent.

Please note the new route (risk of rockfall) between the Wildstrubelhütte and Wisshorelücke.

The Weisshornlücke is a mountain pass in the Wildstrubel massif in the cantons of Bern and Valais. The pass is located at an altitude of 2852 metres above sea level, just above the Wildstrubel Hut and between the Rohrbachstein and the Wisshore.

At the Rawil Pass you are at an altitude of 2,429 meters and on the border between the cantons of Bern and Valais. It is good that the plans from the 1980s to build a road and tunnel here were rejected by a popular initiative, because this means that the mountain idyll continues to prevail here instead of noise.

You have to cross the pass if you want to go from Illhorn to the Waschsee

The Weisshornlücke, a mountain crossing between the cantons of Bern and Valais. On the east side of the gap lies the magnificent Plaine Morte glacier

The Rawil Pass, French Col du Rawyl. The pass was already used in Roman times and in the Middle Ages and was an important crossing point from the Bernese Oberland to the central Valais. The actual mule track over the Rawil Pass begins in the north on the Iffigenalp, which can now be reached by post bus or by car via a time-controlled road. The path winds its way up through a rock face in serpentines. It had to be blasted out of the rock in the 18th century. Interesting: At the beginning of the 20th century, a narrow-gauge railway was planned from Sion to Lenk over the Rawil, which would have passed under the Rawil Pass in a 2.8 km long summit tunnel at 2050 m above sea level. The project was approved by the cantons of Valais and Bern and the Federal Council in 1912, but was never implemented. Source Wikipedia

The Illsee Pass is at 2545m above sea level