Mont Miné Glacier

Glacier tongue at Ferpècle

The Mont - Miné Glacier (French Glacier du Mont Miné ) is a valley glacier in the southern end of the valley of the Val d' Hérens, south-southeast of Evolène in the Valais Alps. It has a length of 7.7 km, and covered in 1995 an area of ​​11.28 km ². The exposition of the Nährgebiets is north-west, the north of Zehrgebiets.

The origins of the Mont- Miné fissured hanging glacier at the Col des Bouquetins ( 3'357 m above sea level. M. ), on straddling the border between Italy and Switzerland, between the ridge of the Bouquetins ( 3'838 m above sea level. M. ) in the west and the Tête Blanche ( 3'710 m above sea level. M. ) in the east. About a glaciated ridge north of the Tête Blanche, Mont - Miné Glacier is connected to the eastern, parallel Ferpèclegletscher. The Mont - Miné Glacier flows to the north, in the west of the Aiguille de la Tsa ( 3'668 m above sea level. M. ) and the Dent de Perroc ( 3,676 m above sea level. M. ), to the east from Mont Miné ( flanked 3'029 m above sea level. M. ). The end of the glacier was in 1983 at an altitude of 1,963 m. The glacier feeds the Borgne de Ferpècle that combines in La Sage with the Borgne d' Arolla to Borgne, the Val d' Hérens flows to the Rhone.

Prior to 1956, the Mont- Miné Glacier was related not only in the accumulation with the Ferpèclegletscher, but united with this also in the tongue area. In this connection area at times accumulated on a border lake, which broke out in the summer of 1952 and d' Hérens damage caused floods in Val.

Crashed in 1949 at the 3rd implementation of the Patrouille des Glaciers in a crevasse participating Maurice Crettez, Robert Droz and Louis Thétaz and were rescued after eight days. This incident was the occasion for a long-standing prohibition on implementation of the event.