Proglacial area 2006 | |||
 The proglacial area of Vadret da Morteratsch, seen from the glacier, showing the braided river, scanty vegetation cover, extensive dead ice and the left-lateral Little Ice Age moraine. (MH) |  Telephoto of the braided section of Ova da Morteratsch, surrounded by rubble deposited directly from the glacier. Note the turquoise pond filling a kettle hole towards top right. (MH) |  Turbulent flow of the milky waters of Ova da Morteratsch around river-bed boulders, captured at a low shutter speed. (MH) |  Gravel and sand bars, with the milky water indicating suspended silt, in the Ova da Morteratsch, looking down-river. (MH) |
 Close-up view of current ripples consisting of sand in the bed of Ova da Morteratsch. Flow is towards the camera. (MH) |  Current ripples of sand encroaching on a substrate of gravel in the bed of Ova da Morteratsch. Flow is towards the camera. (MH) |  Slack flow in the bed of Ova da Morteratsch, illustrating sand bars and sediment-laden meltwater, originating from the glacier in the background; September 2008. (MH) |  To the side of the main channel and still connected to it is a kettle hole. The striking turquoise colour arises from light reflected on silt-sized particles derived from granite-gneiss bedrock. Compare with the telephoto view of the braid-plain from the glacier. (MH) |
 Isolated kettle hole surrounded by alpine flora, down-valley of Vadret da Morteratsch. This feature is the result of melting of buried glacier ice and creation of a depression in the alluvial plain. (MH) |  Small hummocky moraines with early stages of colonisation by vegetation marking the mid-1970s position of the glacier snout. |  Ova da Morteratsch a short distance up-valley from the railway station in the early morning when the water level was low and many boulders on the riverbed were exposed. |  Similar view in the late afternoon, when the water level was high and most of the boulders were under water. (MH) |
 Vegetation is markedly denser just outside the Little Ice Age limit of Vadret da Morteratsch, as can be seen here with well established larch and pine. (MH) |  One of the early colonising plants following deglaciation – the yellow mountain saxifrage (Saxifraga aizoides) – is here growing on coarse glaciofluvial sediment next to a granite boulder. (MH) |  Englacial conduit surrounded by medial moraine debris on lower Vadret da Morteratsch in 2006. Water entering this tunnel ultimately reaches the bed. (MH) | |