Unteraar Glacier

The Unteraargletscher is the bigger of the two source the Aare glacier in the Bernese Oberland. It arises from the union of Finsteraargletschers and Lauteraargletschers (see Aargletscher ) the so-called downturn and flows approximately 6 km to the east down to the top Grimselsee Haslital.

The scree-covered today and rather unsightly Unteraargletscher was in the Baroque period one of Switzerland and since 1827 the first research object of the emerging glacier glaciology research or sights. This was facilitated Franz Joseph Hugi and 1840 Louis Agassiz.

On the Unteraargletscher the large boulder, the Caspar Wolf had in 1775 or 1776 painted, which served as the "Hotel of the neuchâtelois " as a shelter for the researchers since 1840 and has disappeared in Lake Grimsel was.