Named for the most prominent mountain chain near the discoverer’s home town of Glarus {see planet  (1687)}. Its highest summit is 2914 meters above sea level. In 1926 the famous astronomer Fritz Zwicky {see planet  (1803)} and one of his friends (the later Nobel laureate in chemistry, Thadeus Reichstein) became the first to climb the upper half of its north wall. (M 21129) _ _.