The Jungfrau-Aletsch protected area is located in south-western Switzerland between the cantons of Bern and Valais. It is a mountainous region in the easternmost side of the Bernese Alps, containing t
View of the Finsteraarhorn
The valley of the Unteraar Glacier
Aletsch Glacier
Tree line of the Aletsch Forest (Pro Natura nature centre).
Aletsch Glacier
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The Aletsch Glacier or Great Aletsch Glacier is the largest glacier in the Alps. It has a length of about 23 km, a volume of 15.4 km3, and covers about 81.7 km2 in the eastern Bernese Alps in the Swis
Jungfrau-Aletsch protected area
…easternmost side of the Bernese Alps, containing the northern wall of Jungfrau and Eiger, and the largest glaciated area in western Eurasia, comprising the Aletsch Glacier. The Jungfrau-Aletsch protected area is the first World Natural Heritage site in the Alps; it was inscribed in 2001. The Jungfrau-Aletsch protected…
Aletsch Glacier in June 2011
ISS image of the Bernese Alps showing the Wetterhorn (right), Eiger (centre), Jungfrau (left), Lake Brienz (background) and Aletsch glacier (foreground).
At Konkordiaplatz
The beginning of the river Massa (the glacier is visible on the right)