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View of the Rhone Glacier

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Location: Obergoms, Goms, Valais, Switzerland

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Bahnpeter

October 10, 2020

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If there is an entrance fee, it is definitely worth it. The glacier retreat is frightening. When I visited Gletsch for the first time in 1999, the tongue of the glacier could still be clearly seen from the valley (glacier). Now he has already withdrawn very far.

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Martin

August 31, 2020

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An ice grotto has been operated in the expiring tongue of the Rhone Glacier for 180 years in order to gain a glimpse into the interior of the "eternal" glacier …

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Alexander Fritsch

September 28, 2019

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Imposing glacier, where you can see how well he has gone back in recent years.

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