We couldnt go down into the glacier. There were the usual climbers and extreme skiers masquerading as dots on it, but also plenty of work on some of the huge erratics hanging over the tunnel entrance
Monday, June 11, 2007
Bosson snout 2007
If you look at my flickr photos from the last two years, you will see the huge difference in the glacier. An expert for a French tv crew we met at the viewing platform told us its retreating at 20m per year.
Looking down from the Bosson
Shows the depth of the ice in the past. Perfect truncated spurs. 25 years ago the glacier reached the main valley floor over 400 m below
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