Lang Glacier

Delete gap and long glacier from the southwest, from Lauchernalp

The Long Glacier is a valley glacier in the valley of the Lötschental in the southern Bernese Alps. It is located on the territory of the Swiss municipality in the canton of Valais Blatten. The glacier with pronounced tongue was about 6.9 km long in 1973, with an area of 10.1 km ². By 2010, has since, interrupted by a foray in the eighties of the last century, will shorten its length by more than 400 meters.

The Langgletscher arises from two sources glaciers, one of which carries the bigger the name Anengletscher and its origin at the southern flank of glaciated lunch horn to 3,890 m above sea level. M. has. It flows as a broad ice stream miles down steeply sloping southward the slope. The second arm starts at the Lötschenlücke, a 3'170 m glaciated mountain pass, and flows along the northern foot of the shin horn to the southwest. In its lower part the Lang Glacier is only 500 m wide. The glacier tongue, which is covered for the most part of bed, is on ungefähr2'100 m The glacier drains into the Lonza, which flows through the Loetschental the Rhone.

Since the High Stadium during the Little Ice Age in the mid- 19th century, the long glacier receded by about one kilometers. On a ledge of Anengrats that separates the Langgletscher by the system of the Aletsch Glacier in the east, stands near the Lötschenlücke the Hollandiahütte the Swiss Alpine Club SAC at 3,240 m above sea level. M. It serves as an important stage of extensive glacier tours on the route from Loetschental to the Jungfraujoch, or further east to the Grimsel Pass.

The glacier foreland of the long glacier is an object of the Swiss inventory of this type of landscape of national importance.