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Reichenbach Falls

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Reichenbach Falls, waterfalls, total drop 656 ft (200 m), S central Switzerland, where the Reichenbach River joins the Aare River. Upper Reichenbach Falls is one of the highest cataracts (c.300 ft/90 m high) in the Alps. It is familiar to readers of A. Conan Doyle as the place where Sherlock Holmes was said to have disappeared and his archenemy, Professor Moriarty, died.
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There, they visited the Bernese Oberland and the Reichenbach Falls while staying at a hotel in Meiringen.
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People who've never read any Sherlock Holmes know about that famous struggle above the Reichenbach Falls which ends with Holmes and Moriarty pitching headlong to their deaths.
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