Aletsch

The three cars were at the back of the train and the derailment took place near the town of Fiesch and the mouth of the Aletsch glacier, Europe's largest icemass.

Swiss Tourist Train DERAILS, 1 Dead, 42 Injured 2010

Nearly 600 naked people braved the cold on the Aletsch Glacier in Switzerland for the New York photographer Spencer Tunick recently. 600 people may not sound like much when compared to the amount of people that got naked for Tunick in Mexico, but the weather was probably a little more bearable in Mexico too!

August 2007 2007

They contain Europe's largest glacier, the Aletsch, a great variety of glacial features and an outstanding record of the uplift and compression that formed the High Alps. Climate change is illustrated by the varying rates of retreat of several glaciers which provide substrates for notable examples of ecological succession.

Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn, Switzerland 2008

The breach made by the Lötschental-Lötschenlücke-Grosser Aletschfirn-Grünhornlücke, runs east-west to which valleys currently covered by ice from the Aletsch and Fiesch glaciers run at right angles.

Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn, Switzerland 2008

Some glacial tongues descend relatively low, and those of Aletsch and Grindelwald advanced lower than any other glacier in the Alps. Moraines deposited as a result of this movement, show that the Aletsch glacier has been retreating since 1850.

Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn, Switzerland 2008

The length of the glaciers was first measured in 1881 on the Lower Grindelwald glacier and 1892 on the Aletsch and Fiesch glaciers.

Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn, Switzerland 2008

There is no visitors 'center but the Aletsch Ecological Centre at the Villa Cassel run by Pro Natura in Riederalp, has a similar function.

Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn, Switzerland 2008

The nature conservation organization Pro Natura, has signed a 99 year contract with the community of Ried-Mörel south of the World Heritage site for the protection of the Aletsch forest.

Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn, Switzerland 2008

Here is the glacier movement of the Aletsch glacier in the alps.

IPCC and Glaciers « Climate Audit 2006

The glacier of Aletsch, on the southern slope of the Jungfrau, and into which many other glaciers enter, terminates also at a considerable height, because it turns into the valley of the Rhone, through which the southern winds blow constantly.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Various