The first part of its name, Muttbach, is also the name of the adjacent stream that drains from the Mutt Glacier. Belvédère, the rest of its name, refers to a well known hotel and lookout situated nearby, on the Furka Pass high above the Rhone Glacier. (Part of the James Bond movie Goldfinger was filmed between the Belvédère Hotel and the small curved part of the Pass above Realp.)