Aargletschers

The Aargletschers, literally "Aare-Glaciers", are a system of glaciers located at the sources of the Aare river in the Bernese Alps, Switzerland. The original name has no plural-"s", as in German the plural of "gletscher" is only marked by changes of the article. The Aargletschers are constituted by two distinct partial glacier systems:

• Unteraargletscher: composed by the converging Lauteraargletscher and Finsteraargletscher, between the Lauteraarhorn, Finsteraarhorn () and Grimselsee ().
• Oberaargletscher: between Oberaarhorn () and Oberaarsee ().

Grimselsee and Oberaarsee are recent reserve lakes. The "…-Aar-Horns" are summits of more than 3600 metres above sea level, two of them even above 4000 metres.

See also

• Rhône Glacier

Sources

• Swisstopo (CH 3084 Wabern): Landeskarte der Schweiz 1:100 000
  • No. 37 Brünigpass
  • No. 42 Oberwallis