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Rhone Glacier

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Rhone Glacier

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Location: Obergoms, Goms, Valais, Switzerland

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1. View of the Rhone Glacier – Rhone Glacier loop from Oberwald

8.97km

03:10

290m

Expert hike. Good fitness required. Sure-footedness, sturdy shoes and alpine experience required.

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2. Rhone Glacier – Source of the Rhône loop from Oberwald

1.61km

00:28

40m

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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3. Rhone Glacier – Rhone Glacier Ice Cave loop from Oberwald

2.27km

00:45

80m

Intermediate hike. Great for any fitness level. Mostly accessible paths. Sure-footedness required.

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Rombea

August 4, 2024

A glacier educational trail leads through the picturesque high mountain scenery along the glacier lake to the ice grotto near the glacier tongue. For almost 200 years, this has been carved into the glacier practically every year and inside you can experience a "blue miracle" because the grotto shines in a wonderful blue light. Despite the enormous melting of the glacier, the Rhone Glacier is still almost 9 km long and up to 200 m thick. The glacier movement at the level of the ice grotto in the tongue area is 30 - 40 m annually or up to 10 cm per day; nowhere else in Europe can you get as close to a glacier as in the ice grotto in the Rhone Glacier.

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MrPlom | YT🇳🇵🇳🇴

January 8, 2024

You can only go there if you pay. But you can go under the glacier, from the outside you can see that the glacier has melted a lot over the years.

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Location: Obergoms, Goms, Valais, Switzerland

Rhone Glacier

1. View of the Rhone Glacier – Rhone Glacier loop from Oberwald

2. Rhone Glacier – Source of the Rhône loop from Oberwald

3. Rhone Glacier – Rhone Glacier Ice Cave loop from Oberwald

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