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Rhone Glacier – Rhone Glacier Ice Cave loop from Oberwald

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Switzerland
Valais
Goms
Obergoms

Rhone Glacier – Rhone Glacier Ice Cave loop from Oberwald

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Rhone Glacier – Rhone Glacier Ice Cave loop from Oberwald

00:28

1.61km

40m

Hiking

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: November 17, 2025

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After 190 m for 466 m

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After 774 m for 714 m

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Start point

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40 m

Hotel-Restaurant Belvédère Furka Pass

Highlight • Monument

Wonderful old hotel building that is unfortunately closed, but with a gigantic view. The hotel is right on the curve of the pass road. Greetings from James Bond.

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168 m

The entrance area with ticket office and souvenir shop is the entrance to the Belvédère ice grotto and the Rhone Glacier. The grotto has been carved into the ice here …

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320 m

Rhone Glacier

Highlight • Natural Monument

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 …

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715 m

Rhone Glacier Ice Cave

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Well, there is not much left of the glacier cave. We visited the cave for the first time in 2017 and are shocked today at what is left of it. …

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1.09 km

Source of the Rhône

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The Rhone rises in the Swiss canton of Valais at the end of the Rhone Glacier from a recently formed glacial lake.

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1.61 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

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1.48 km

< 100 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

1.03 km

264 m

229 m

< 100 m

< 100 m

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