Glacier gate on the Schwarzberg Glacier

Photo: Glacier gate on the Schwarzberg glacier. The white glacier tongue ends flat in the grey scree landscape of the glacier forefield with glacier stream. Above the gate, the glacier ice is covered with boulders (= supraglacial moraine).
Description: Glacier gate on the Schwarzberg glacier. The white glacier tongue ends flat in the grey scree landscape of the glacier forefield with glacier stream. Above the gate, the glacier ice is covered with boulders (= supraglacial moraine).
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Location: Saas Valley, Valais, Switzerland
Date Month/Year: 7.2010
Photographer: Simon Oberli, Hasle-Rüegsau
Number: F078164
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