Moming Glacier

Zinalrothorn and Mominggletscher from northwest

The Mominggletscher (French Glacier de Moming ) is a slope glacier in the southeast of the Swiss Val de Zinal, in the Valais Alps. Its length in 2011 was about 3.1 km, the area was given in 2006 with 6.4 km ². Since the 1970s he has retreated by about half a kilometer. The glacier ranges from 4'070 m above sea level. M. on 2'580 meters above sea level. M. down. Its name comes from the Latin mons back median (middle mountain or medium Alp ).

His starting point takes the Mominggletscher on the northern edge of the Zinalrothorns. It flows northward down a very steep slope and then divides into two lobes tongue, which are separated by a rock wall. The two are each about a kilometer wide glacier tongues move to the northwest in the direction of Val de Zinal and some are rugged wild. To the south is the Mominggletscher by a rocky ridge from Mountetgletscher, a Tributärgletscher of Zinalgletschers separated; the southwestern concludes with the Pyramid of Besso ( 3'668 m above sea level. M. ). Both glaciers draining into the Navisence, which flows through the Val d' Anniviers to the Rhone.