Tschingel Glacier

The Tschingelfirn is a valley glacier on the northern slope of the Bernese Alps, in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It has a length of 3.5 km is up to 2 km wide and covers an area of ​​almost 6 km ².

His starting point takes the Tschingelfirn on the northwest edge of the Tschingelhorns to over 3300 m. First, the glacier flows northward steeply down the hillside. In the valley encounters another arm of the eastern flank of the Blüemlisalp added. Then the Tschingelfirn moved eastward, taking the prominent rocky ridge of Gspaltenhorns and Tschingelspitzes ( 3304 m) is flanked to the north. The glacier is currently at an altitude of around 2200 m. It drains into the Tschingel Lütschinen, which later united with another source stream to the white Lütschinen and the Lauterbrunnen valley flows to Lake Brienz.

To the west, the north and south of Tschingelfirn Mutthorns ( 3035 m) above firnbedeckte passes ( Tschingelpass, 2787 m) associated with the Kanderfirn. On a ledge of Mutthorns is 2900 m the Mutthornhütte the Swiss Alpine Club SAC, which is accessible only by glaciers, either from Gasterntal or from the Lauterbrunnen ago.

During the high stage of the Little Ice Age in the mid- 19th century, the glacier tongue of Tschingelfirn was connected with that of the weather gap glacier. This glacier extends over a length of 2 km at the eastern flank of the Tschingelhorns. Since both glaciers are a total of barely receded about 1893 since the beginning of the glacier measurements, there is still a small Firnverbindung in the field of tongues.

46.57.8425Koordinaten: 46 ° 30 '0 "N, 7 ° 50' 33" E; CH1903: 631002/149934

  • Glaciers in the Alps
  • Glacier in Europe
  • Glacier in the canton of Bern
  • Aare river system
  • Lauterbrunnen
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