Aletsch Glacier

The glacier is retreating 20m per year due to global warming. The kink in the rock to the right shows where the ice used to reach, the rock below it scraped smooth by the glacier sliding down the valley.

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Taken in Raron , Canton of Valais (map)
Taken on August 11, 2008

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