Tomorrow we're off to the Jungfrau - riding one of the great railway lins in the world as it rise something like 2500 m in 15 km - quite a journey. await the posting of this early next week.
AS
Saturday, 24 July 2010
Aletsch Glacier
On Thursday, we went through the Goms - a beautiful stretch of the upper Rhone valley - past meadows and forests and high mountains. At Fiesch, we alighted (all 5 of us) to go up the mountainside to Eggishorn (at about 2950m). There we gazed down on the famous Aletsch Glacier, which is - at 23 km in legth - the longest in the Alps. It is also World Heritage Listed and truly spectacular, especially as it rises in the Jungfrau region with its series of famous peaks - Jungfrau (Virgin), Eiger (Ogre) and Monch (Monk). I attach a picture of the glacier looking towards those peaks. I appear in the foreground sitting on the edge of a precepice. Those three peaks are barely visible in the background. By the way, it wasn't warm despite my dress!
Tomorrow we're off to the Jungfrau - riding one of the great railway lins in the world as it rise something like 2500 m in 15 km - quite a journey. await the posting of this early next week.
AS
Tomorrow we're off to the Jungfrau - riding one of the great railway lins in the world as it rise something like 2500 m in 15 km - quite a journey. await the posting of this early next week.
AS
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You never pass up an opportunity to wear shorts....What are the black bands through the ice? Water?
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