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On August 3, 1811, two mountain goat hunters and two silk ribbon fabricants penetrated the pristine white peak of the Jungfrau for the first time with a black flag. Unfortunately the flag was too small to be seen from the valley below and so nobody believed them, forcing them to reascend the Jungfrau the following year with a larger red wax cloth.

Going back to the twelfth century, Augustinian Nuns operated alpine dairies in the Jungfrau’s meadows. Their nunnery was abolished in 1484 and by the next century, the mountain came to connote the virgin purity of the snow and the ice cloak …