
Aletsch Glacier Loop
The print
Printed to order at 300 DPI, rendered natively at your size and never upscaled. Print only; the frame in the photos is for scale.
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About the Aletsch Glacier Loop trail
Aletsch Glacier Loop is a 9.7-mile loop in Valais, climbing 1,739 feet between 7,027 and 8,175 feet above sea level. The steepest pitch reaches 48 percent, against an average of 179 feet of gain per mile. On our gain-and-distance scale it falls in the strenuous band. The nearest town is Naters, 8 miles away.
The trail
The Aletsch Glacier (German: Aletschgletscher [ˈaːlɛtʃˌɡlɛtʃər] ) or Great Aletsch Glacier (Grosser Aletschgletscher) is the largest glacier in the Alps. It has a length of about 23 km (14 mi) (2014), a volume of 15.4 km3 (3.7 cu mi) (2011), and covers about 81.7 km2 (31.5 square miles) (2011) in the eastern Bernese Alps in the Swiss canton of Valais.
Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Along the route
- Gletscherstube Märjelenmi 5.5
Places OpenStreetMap maps within 150 m of the route.
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Place names along the route: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Best months are an estimate from NASA POWER climate data (CC BY 4.0), 2001 to 2020 monthly averages adjusted to the trail's elevation, not an official season; check current conditions and closures.