The Trümmelbachfälle is a cascade of 10 waterfalls inside the mountain, where the water has carved out channels and polished the walls of the mountain. It is possible to see – and photograph – because of an extensive network of passageways and tunnels that has been dug out in the mountain to make it possible to observe the falls and the beautiful rock faces surrounding it.
It is a vertical fall, several hundred metres high. You first access it through a staircase and then a lift will bring you up another 100 metres and then another series of staircases will bring you further up, all inside the mountain, but with a number of “balconies” and observation platforms where you can see the different cascades.
It is the largest underground waterfalls in Europe and an UNESCO World Heritage Site. I loved the surrounding rocks being polished by thousands of years of water and debris tumbling down the waterfalls. The closest comparison I could think of was Antelope Canyon in Arizona, where the sandstone has been polished by torrential downfalls. But, because it is sandstone, it has a different palette of colours than the caves and tunnels at Trümmelbach, which is mainly made up of granite and gneiss
Trümmelbach is sourced by meltwater from the Jungfrau glacier. Up to 20,000 litres of water per second passes through the caves and grottos. Below you will see different cascades and caves carved out by the water
Upper Antelope Canyon, Arizona
