Gornergletscher 2011All photos, unless otherwise noted, were taken on August 17th, 2011. |
![Gornergletscher Gornergletscher](icons-2011/gornergletscher_uebersicht.jpg) Overview from Rotenboden; far left Liskamm, on the right Breithorn. | ![Gornergletscher Gornergletscher](icons-2011/matterhorn_mond.jpg) The moon is setting behind the Matterhorn. | ![Gornergletscher 2011 Gornergletscher 2011](icons-2011/gornergletscher_2004_2011.jpg) Repeat photo 16.8.2004 (top) and 17.8.2011. | ![Gornergletscher Gornergletscher](icons-2011/gornergletscher_randglazialer_see.jpg) Small ice-dammed lake below Gornergrat. |
![Gornergletscher Gornergletscher](icons-2011/gornergletscher_block_faltung.jpg) Glacier table with block of strongly folded gneiss. | ![Gornergletscher Gornergletscher](icons-2011/gornergletscher_doppelfalte.jpg) Big double fold in the foliation. | ![Gornergletscher Gornergletscher](icons-2011/gornergletscher_monte_rosa_schmelzwassersee.jpg) Cryoconite hole with meltwater pond; Monte Rosa in the background. | ![Gornergletscher Gornergletscher](icons-2011/gornergletscher_kryokonitloch.jpg) Cryoconite hole in the bubble-rich, very brigt ice of Grenzgletscher. |
![Gornergletscher Gornergletscher](icons-2011/gornergletscher_crevasse_trace.jpg) Deep blue, clear ice layers under the meltwater in a cryoconite hole. | ![Gornergletscher Gornergletscher](icons-2011/gornergletscher_mini_iceships.jpg) Ice ships near a medial moraine on Gornergletscher. | ![Gornergletscher Gornergletscher](icons-2011/gornergletscher_see_schluchten.jpg) The largest meltwater pond on the lower tongue of Gornergletscher. | ![Gornergletscher Gornergletscher](icons-2011/gornergletscher_pano_1.jpg) On the shore of the same meltwater pond. |
![Gornergletscher Gornergletscher](icons-2011/gornergletscher_see_pano_2.jpg) Panorama photo of the meltwater pond, looking towards Monte Rosa and Liskamm. | ![Gornergletscher Gornergletscher](icons-2011/gornergletscher_see_pano_3.jpg) Panorama photo of the meltwater pond, looking towards Gornergrat and Monte Rosa (far right). | ![Gornergletscher Gornergletscher](icons-2011/gornergletscher_see_detail.jpg) Foliation and strand lines on the shore of the large meltwater pond. | ![Gornergletscher Gornergletscher](icons-2011/gornergletscher_see_detail_1.jpg) Pattern in the cryoconite which has settled on the bottom of the meltwater pond. |
![Gornergletscher Gornergletscher](icons-2011/gornergletscher_fels.jpg) Freshly exposed bedrock along the true right margin of Gornergletscher. | ![Gornergletscher Gornergletscher](icons-2011/gornergletscher_boudlinage_1.jpg) Erratic and spectacular boudinage along the margin of Gornergletscher. | ![Gornergletscher Gornergletscher](icons-2011/gornergletscher_boudlinage_2.jpg) Variegated boudinage in the metamorphic rocks along Gornergletscher. | ![Gornergletscher, Matterhorn Gornergletscher, Matterhorn](icons-2011/gornergletscher_matterhorn_glacier_table.jpg) Big glacier table, medial moraine and Matterhorn. |
Photos Jürg Alean. |