Posts about glacier
Random things in August
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A lovely month full of experiences, but fewer random photographs than usual.
Hiking to the Oberaar glacier
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Hiking along the milky Oberaarsee to the ice cave at the terminus of the Oberaar glacier.
2019 in review: up in the air
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2019 was my second year with a drone, and I continued to experiment with the possibilities and travel to places with the specific aim of photographing them from the air.
The simple things
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A family came to enjoy the landscape and ended up drawing patterns in the sand.
The unstoppable loss
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Because the Aletsch glacier is inevitably melting so much, the adjacent mountain ridges are beginning to destabilize.
Greenland – Land of Ice
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A remarkable and beautiful film of nature, landscape, ice and ocean by photographer Stefan Forster.
The view around the corner at Susten Pass
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Finding a magnificent view of a scene I know well, by going up a little road and turning a corner.
Hiking along a panoramic path above the lake at Oeschinensee and then over-doing it on a much steeper, rockier path on the way to the Blümlisalphütte.
Breithorn, Zermatt
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The valley at Zermatt is surrounded by nearly three dozen peaks with summits higher than 4,000 metres above sea level. The Breithorn is well-known as the “easiest” to ascend: although easiness is, of course, a matter of reference. The number of tiny, ant-like climbers on the slopes leading from the Breithorn Plateau was quite amazing, when…
Gries Pass
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Attempting to get away from baking temperatures, we headed for the mountains and a hike across summer snow fields to the Gries glacier.
Hike to Steingletscher
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A long-held ambition fulfilled: to hike to my favourite glacier near the Susten Pass in Switzerland.
Glacier 3000
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Glacier 3000 is the name of a tourist destination in the French Swiss region of Les Diablerets; the number in question being the (approximate) height in metres above sea level of the upper part of a sizeable glacier, easily reachable by cable car and snowed-over the whole year round. As well as the usual outdoor…
The Saddle
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The Jungfraujoch station, tourist destination and meteorological research centre sits on the “saddle” between the Mönch and Jungfrau peaks. The weather was fine enough to spend some time outside when we visited, so I took the opportunity to stomp through the snow to the very base of the Mathildespitze, a high outcrop beneath the main…
Back in Zermatt
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Zermatt is one of the Swiss destinations most well-known outside Switzerland, thanks mainly to its proximity to the Matterhorn, probably the most famous mountain in the country.
Going the extra mile
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I decided to take advantage of glorious warm weather and the Easter bank holiday to visit the closed stretch of road near the upper reaches of the Susten pass in Switzerland.
Into another world
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Last weekend, we chose to head for the Eigergletscher (“Eiger Glacier”) station high above Grindelwald: to appreciate the astounding beauty of the autumnal landscapes below the station, to be enthralled by the massive cliffs of the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau, and also to visit the polar dogs who are kenneled next to the station.
Rhone Glacier
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Can you spot the Meads? Despite the rapid rate at which the glacier is shrinking, it’s still a very impressive sight.
