ETo be amazed is to look reality in the face. While many glaciers are in terminal phase, the observer overlooking the great Aletsch glacier, in Switzerland, from the Eggishorn lookout (2,869 m) cannot believe his eyes. As in the last century, the largest Alpine glacier impresses with its measurements: 22 kilometers long, a depth of 800 meters in places, and an estimated weight of 27 billion tonnes, the equivalent of 72.5 million planes. line !
For this meeting with His Highness of the Alps, we put on our appropriate outfit – alpine shoe, harness, crampons. “It is necessary to be roped up because the crevasses are everywhere,” warns our guide, Richard. Fed by three basins, this glacier is not just everyone’s…
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