The melt water falls over the Alpine ridge

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The Grossglockner High Alpine Road is a panoramic road in Austria. The most famous route through the Alps ends just before the jewel in the Hohe Tauern national park's crown: the highest mountain and the largest glacier in Austria, the Großglockner 3.798 m and its glacier, the Pasterze. You will have a driving and nature experience of a special kind on 48 kilometres of high alpine road with 36 bends, and an altitude ascent to 2,504 metres! You pass through a unique world of mountains with blossoming alpine meadows, fragrant mountain forests, massive cliffs and eternal ice to the foot of the Grossglockner, the Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe. The route is described in the brochure as a Bikers Heaven. The Großglockner Hochalpenstraße Road was built between 1930 and 1935, to fight unemployment and boost tourism in Salzburg. It is in within the Nationalpark Hohe Tauern. Closed in winter until end of October to beginning of May.

The Mooserboden is a valley basin, which was formed by the Glacier Pasterze. The basin collects the meltwater of the glacier Pasterze. Eventually the water will pass through the main Alpine ridge to the Möll river eventually into the Danube - Donau river.

De Großglockner Hochalpenstraße is één van de mooiste bergwegen ter wereld en zeker de moeite waard om te bezichtigen. Deze panoramische tolweg verbindt de deelstaat Salzburg met Karinthië. De 47,8 km lange weg leidt middenin het Hohe Tauern National Park naar de hoogste berg van Oostenrijk, de Großglockner 3.798m en zijn gletsjer, de Pasterze. De Pasterzegletsjer is wel 10 km lang en heeft een oppervlakte van bijna 20 m2. De Großglockner Alpenstraße voert je door een wild en rotsachtig landschap. Maar liefst 36 haarspeldbochten zorgen ervoor dat je uiteindelijk tot een hoogte van 2.504 meter stijgt. Tijdens de rit wordt je getrakteerd op adembenemende uitzichten. Ook kun je genieten van de aanblik van enkele honderden bergtoppen van boven de 3.000 meter. Twee kilometer voor de Grossglockner onder het einde van de gletsjer Pasterze ligt de emerald groene Margaritze Stuwmeer. Deze Stausee is een dam, die wordt gevoed door het smeltwater van de gletsjer Pasterze. Onderweg op de Großglockner Alpenstraße kun je eventueel stoppen bij verschillende uitzichtplaatsen en informatiepunten. Voor kinderen zijn er speeltuintjes en ook is het mogelijk om in echte sneeuw te spelen. Er zijn tevens 2 kabelbanen die je de mogelijkheid bieden om nog meer van de mooie omgeving te bekijken.

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    hammy15, leuntje, Hazel K., Werner Schnell Images (2.stream), and 87 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. B℮n (17 months ago | reply)

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  3. hammy15 (17 months ago | reply)

    Beautiful!!!! Love this capture!!!!

  4. leuntje (17 months ago | reply)

    Indrukwekkend !

  5. Werner Schnell Images (2.stream) (17 months ago | reply)

    great

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  7. holland fotograaf [on/off] (17 months ago | reply)

    heel fraai daar mooi en goed fotowerk

  8. Marcos Arruda (17 months ago | reply)

    linda foto, Ben...
    parabéns...

  9. STEHOUWER AND RECIO (17 months ago | reply)

    Wat een mooi contrast tussen dat groene deel en de sneeuw op de hoogste bergen!

  10. Guylaine Begin - PhotosNature (17 months ago | reply)

    Superb!

  11. Denis Collette...!!! (17 months ago | reply)

    Vision irrésistible... j'adore...!!! Ü

  12. Dircinha - (17 months ago | reply)

    Wow.. really fantastic scene.

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    Congratulations, I saw this wonderful photo in
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  15. koko_pictures (17 months ago | reply)

    Temidden van al die sneeuw..........in de zon ........op 'n groen grasgedeelte.......
    zal het best heerlijk warm zijn!

  16. powerfocusfotografie (17 months ago | reply)

    Prachtig wild landschap Ben!!

  17. Driven to Capture 2 (17 months ago | reply)

    A great Mountain Scene!

  18. DanielKHC (17 months ago | reply)

    Impressive mountain scenery! Happy New Year Ben and all the best for 2012!

  19. Dan Anderson (dead camera, RIP) (17 months ago | reply)

    Beautiful indeed

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  23. petra** (17 months ago | reply)

    fantastic view!!

  24. CamerOB (17 months ago | reply)

    Prachtige foto: een deel van de kringloop van het water mooi in beeld gebracht !

  25. imagejoe (17 months ago | reply)

    BIG !!! FAV !!! JOE>

  26. ditmaliepaard (17 months ago | reply)

    Wow ,
    wat gaaf !!!!

    Gezien in De Doka

  27. Snah51 ;-D200/P7700 (17 months ago | reply)

    Wat zijn die bergen toch mooi! ☺

  28. Leonardo Martins (17 months ago | reply)

    Magical place, Ben!

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  33. ! . © Angela Lobefaro . ! (17 months ago | reply)

    Bravo

    What a great capture
    Awesome colours and details.

    ciao
    Angela

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  34. FlipMode79 (17 months ago | reply)

    Those are some BIG mountains Ben : )

  35. moosejaw2 (17 months ago | reply)

    Fantastic photo. Love the bird.

  36. ippei + janine (17 months ago | reply)

    Great photo that can make viewers feel the scale!

  37. julesnene (17 months ago | reply)

    Such magnificent landscape view!

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    This is a beautiful image!!
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  39. Miss M Schneiderhead (17 months ago | reply)

    Immense shot here - I feel so small! - the world is a wonderful place and thanks for showing this part of it to us! Fabulous.

  40. horstgeorg (17 months ago | reply)

    Great picture ! Very well done !!!

  41. Peggy2012CREATIVELENZ (17 months ago | reply)

    Dit is werkelijk prachtig Ben!

    Goedemorgen!

  42. Bert Kaufmann (17 months ago | reply)

    Van een dergelijk schouwspel krijg je nooit genoeg ...
    Ronduit prachtig, Ben !

  43. tasos_sn* (17 months ago | reply)

    great work my friend...Well done !!
    Have a nice day !!

  44. mikazu001 veryslow (17 months ago | reply)

    Brilliant Capture!
    happy Sunday!

  45. mikazu001 veryslow (17 months ago | reply)

    This photo took my BREATH away

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  47. Weirena (17 months ago | reply)

    what a energy and power in this place ... great image ben ... happy sunday :-)
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  48. Ferdi's - World (17 months ago | reply)

    mooi stukje natuurschoon, zal nu wel helemaal vol met sneeuw liggen!

  49. Mathieu Noel (17 months ago | reply)

    enormous ... beautiful waterfall ...

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    gold
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    Fantastic Capture!
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  79. Blunder (17 months ago | reply)

    Alsof het landschap in tweeën gespleten wordt.

  80. Marjolein K. (17 months ago | reply)

    Wat een heerlijk, heerlijk landschap.

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    Mooi stukje Europa!
    Prachtig berglandschap.

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    Very beautiful! Love your mountain images!

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