Vadret Pers and Vadret da Morteratsch 2011 and 2012Rapid recession of the glacier system Pers-Morteratsch continues. In only a few years Vadret Pers will no longer reach Vadret da Morteratsch. | |||
 Panorama photo from Munt Pers, 8.9.2012. The image is wide and my require scrolling to the right. |  Tele photo from Munt Pers showing the confluence of Vadret Pers and Vadret da Morteratsch. 8.9.2012. |  Transverse crevasses above the icefall of Vadret Pers, tele photo from Munt Pers. 8.9.2012. |  Crevasse field on Vadret da Morteratsch, tele photo from Munt Pers. 8.9.2012. |
 The true right lateral moraine of Vadret Pers dams small lakes below Munt Pers. 8.9.2012. |  Panorama from the lateral moraine of Vadret Pers below Diavolezza. 8.9.2012. |  A waterfall has emerged in a previously ice-covered rock face on the true left side of Vadret Pers. 8.9.2012. |  Small lake dammed by lateral moraines of Vadret da Morteratsch and Vadret da Pers. 8.9.2012. |
 On Vadret da Morteratsch, below the icefall, the so-called "Labyrinth". 8.9.2012. |  Icefall (so-called "Labyrinth") of Vadret da Morteratsch in the evenig light; tele photo. 8.9.2012. |  Panorama photo of Vadret da Morteratsch from the Boval mountain hut. 9.9.2012. |  Big hole in the ice near the terminus of Vadret da Morteratsch, caused by a moulin. 14.8.2011. |
 Portal of Vadret da Morteratsch on 10.9.2012; photo Michael Hambrey. |  The glacier portal one year earlier, on 14.8.2011. |  The glacier portal on 10.9.2011 after several roof collapses; photo Michael Hambrey. |  Recently collapsed ice near the portal of Vadret da Morteratsch. 8.10.2012. |
 Glacier fleas on the tongue of Vadret da Morteratsch. These hexapods are only 1,5 to 2,5mm long. 8.10.2012. |  Glacier fleas of various sizes on the tongue of Vadret da Morteratsch. 8.10.2012. |  Glacier fleas in a small cryoconite hole on the tongue of Vadret da Morteratsch. 8.10.2012. |  Ice crystals on the edge of a meltwater channel on Vadret Pers. |
 Frozen surface of a meltwater channel on Vadret Pers. 8.9.2012. |  Nightsky with milky way above Vadret Pers, Piz Palü (left) and Piz Bernina (right) from Diavolezza. 7.9.2012. |  Sunrise on Piz Palü; tele photo from Diavolezza. 8.9.2012. |  Sunrise on Piz Bernina; tele photo from Diavolezza. 8.9.2012. |
| Photos, unless otherwise noted, are by Jürg Alean. | |||