Albigna Glacier

The Albignagletscher (Romansh Vadrec da l' Albigna ) is a valley glacier in Bergell, in the south of the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It is 3.5 km long with an average width of 700 to 800 m and covered with the Seitenfirnen an area of ​​3.5 km ².

His starting point takes the Albignagletscher to around 2,800 m in a col at the foot of Sciora Dadent ( 3'275 m above sea level. M. ) and Cima della Bondasca ( 3'289 m above sea level. M. ), of which the border between Italy and Switzerland runs. The glacier flows at a relatively low inclination of about 15 % to the north and is thereby in the west of the Sciora Dafora ( 3'169 m above sea level. M. ), to the east of the Cima di Castello ( 3'379 m above sea level. M. ) flanked. The glacier is currently at the rear end of the reservoir Albigna at an altitude of 2,160 m. Outflow of the reservoir is the Albigna which opens at Vicosoprano in the Mera.

During the high stage of the Little Ice Age in the mid- 19th century and until the late 1960s, the firn fields ranged on the western slope of the Cima di Castello over the rocky slopes to the Albignagletscher down into the valley. Today, the glacier tongue of the firn has withdrawn to nearly 2,600 m.