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The Aletsch Glacier, Switzerland.

 

This is the largest glacier in the Alps. It has a length of about 23 km and covers more than 120 square kilometres (more than 45 square miles) in the eastern Bernese Alps in the Swiss canton of Valais. The Aletsch Glacier is composed by three smaller glaciers converging at Concordia, where its thickness is estimated to be near 1 km. It then continues towards the Rhone valley before giving birth to the Massa river.

 

The Aletsch Glacier is one of the most impressive features of the Swiss Alps. The whole area, including other glaciers was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2001.

 

The view is really fantastic and refresh my memory when I saw it firstly in Jungfrau. I have a 3 hours walk, seems like I am walking along with the glacier, thanks god for the beautiful weather and this is one of my favourite photos in this trip. And after the walk, I travel on the cable car and back to Riederalp, which is a very very beautiful village I want to come back again.

 

Riederalp is a municipality in the district of Raron in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. And is a traffic-free village (cable car access), this is really an escape from the city life.

The mid-mountain resort sits on a sunny, south-facing terrace, south of the 23-kilometre long Aletsch Glacier—Europe's largest, in the Bernese Alps. The altitude of the village (1,930 m) allows good view of the Pennine Alps with some of its highest summits such as the Fletschhorn, Dom and Matterhorn.

 

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