OverviewThis series of photos shows the variety of phenomena which can be found at Unteraargletscher. The photos start in the accumulation area at the base of Finsteraarhorn, then continue downglacier and end in the glacier forefield. |
![Overview Overview](icons-unteraargletscher/finsteraarhorn-aerial.jpg) The highest part of the accumulation area is below the east face of Finsteraarhorn. | ![Overview Overview](icons-unteraargletscher/finsteraarhorn.jpg) Finsteraarhorn at sunrise as seen from Aarbiwak: only one tiny hanging glacier exists in the steep rock face (upper right). | ![Overview Overview](icons-unteraargletscher/studerhorn-aerial.jpg) Ice apron and hanging glacier on Studerhorn; below the beginning of the icefall of Finsteraargletscher (compare next photo). | ![Overview Overview](icons-unteraargletscher/eisfall-studerhorn.jpg) Looking across the great icefall at the base of Finsteraarhorn towwards the ice apron of Studerhorn (compareprevious photo). |
![Overview Overview](icons-unteraargletscher/oberaarhorn.jpg) Smaller icefall below Oberaarhorn (far right). | ![Overview Overview](icons-unteraargletscher/megablock-1.jpg) Huge granite blocks are typical of Finsteraargletscher, the right tributary to Unteraargletscher. | ![Overview Overview](icons-unteraargletscher/megablock-2.jpg) The same block as in the previous image, from the opposite direction. Lauteraargletscher in the background. | ![Overview Overview](icons-unteraargletscher/eis-hexagon.jpg) Air bubbles trapped under a thin layer of ice which has formed overnight in a cryoconite hole. |
![Overview Overview](icons-unteraargletscher/abschwung.jpg) Confluence of Lauteraargletscher (back) and Finsteraargletscher (foreground) at the so-called "Abschwung". | ![Overview Overview](icons-unteraargletscher/bruecke.jpg) Great boulders form natural bridges across a meltwater stream near "Abschwung". | ![Overview Overview](icons-unteraargletscher/abschwung-3.jpg) Aerial view across "Abschwung" und Finsteraargletscher towards Studerhorn (with ice apron) and Finsteraarhorn. | ![Overview Overview](icons-unteraargletscher/abschwung-aerial.jpg) Medial moraine between Lauteraargletscher (lower left) and Finsteraargletscher (top) with small supraglacial meltwater lake. |
![Overview Overview](icons-unteraargletscher/moraenenstruktur.jpg) Variegated medial moraines on Unteraargletscher as seen from Lauteraarhütte (Swiss Alpine Club). | ![Overview Overview](icons-unteraargletscher/schwarz.jpg) View from the path leading to the hut towards the debris-covered tongue and Grimselsee. | ![Overview Overview](icons-unteraargletscher/toteisloecher.jpg) Aerial photo of kettleholes in the glacier forefield. Path to Lauteraarhütte near left margin. | ![Overview Overview](icons-unteraargletscher/roter-granit.jpg) Sunrise over the granite rock walls above Unteraargletscher; Finsteraarhorn far right. |
Photos Jürg Alean: aerials August 2004; terrestrial September 2005 |