Glacier Collection (page 6)

Switzerland - Rosenlaui Glacier and the Engelhorn Mountain
Switzerland - Rosenlaui Glacier (Rosenlauigletscher) and the Engelhorn (Englehorner) Mountain Date: 1910s

Trient Glacier and a waterfall
Looking up toward the Trient Glacier past a mountain stream waterfall, Switzerland Date: 1910s

Kjenndalsbreen, Norway - Kjenndals Glacier
Kjenndalsbreen, Norway - The edge of the Kjenndals Glacier Date: circa 1904

Swiss motorcar made out of ice
A rather bizarre Swiss motorcar made out of ice at the Ice Palace at Jungfraujoch - a free tourist attraction inside Europes longest glacier

Trient Glacier and the village of Le Peuty, Switzerland Date: 1910s

Glacier, Norway
The Bondhus glacier in the Norwegian fjords Date: circa 1890

Trient Glacier and the Pointe D Orny Mountain (10742 ft high), Switzerland Date: 1910s

Climbing a Glacier
Climbing a glacier with ropes through a hazardous tangle of ravines. It takes 7 hours to advance up the 4500 feet face of the glacier. Date: 1930s

The Mont Blanc Railway - Panorama
The Mont Blanc Railway, Mont Blanc, France - Panorama, taken close to Col de Voza Date: 1932

Glacier Peak
Climbers reach the peak of a glacier. Date: 1930s

Alpine Crevasse
Mountainous Alpine scenery - climbing a glacier through a narrow crevasse in the rocks, through which melting water flows. Date: 1930s

Swiss Alps - Hotel du Glacier at Bignasco
A very very early illustrated Swss postcard, depicting the Hotel du Glacier at Bignasco Date: 1889

Santa Cruz Province Argentina - Smallholding
Santa Cruz Province, Argentina - Smallholding at the end of the glacier Date: circa 1920

Simplon - Switzerland - The Miner
A Miner from the Simplon region of Switzerland. It looks as if he is about to lead a guided tour of a tunnel system cut through glacial ice. Date: circa 1905

Switzerland - Ascending a glacier
Switzerland - Fice climbers scale a glacier Date: circa 1910s

Jungfrau Mountain Allegory
A stylised (and rather bizarre) view of the Jungfrau Mountain, depicted as... a Jungfrau! Date: 1908

View of the Rhone Glacier in the Swiss Alps
View of The Grimselstrasse, winding up the Rhone Glacier in the Swiss Alps. Date: circa 1940

Crossing the Mer de Glace - Chamonix
A smartly attired group of walkers cross the Mer de Glace at Chamonix, France. circa 1880

Inside the Rhone Glacier in the Swiss Alps
View inside the Rhone Glacier in the Swiss Alps, at a height of 2300 metres. Wooden planks have been laid down for tourists to walk on. Date: circa 1940

Franz Josef Glacier, South Island, New Zealand
View of ice at the tongue of the Franz Josef Glacier, South Island, New Zealand. The glacier is 12 km long, and is located in Westland National Park on the west coast of the Island

A View up the Great Beardmore Glacier
A view on the Great Beardmore Glacier up which Captain Scott ascended to the plateau during December 1911 on his ill-fated expedition to the South Pole

Ice Grotto - Eiger Glacier
An Ice grotto cut into glacier on the lower slopes of the Eiger Mountain, Switzerland

Dog from Jungfrau Railway Polar Dog Colony
The kennels of the Jungfrau Railway Polar Dog Colony are situated just below the Eiger Glacier moraine. The Greenland dogs have lived here for nearly one hundred years

Whos Afraid by Ethel Parkinson
Two children, wrapped up in eskimo or Inuit style coats and hats play a pleasant game of see saw with a friendly Polar Bear

Multiplication is vexation by Ethel Parkinson
Three large penguins line up to be taught some mathematics by a strict little eskimo child

Walrus and children
Two children, wrapped up charmingly against the cold in white, furry outfits, look fairly sanguine about meeting an enormous walrus. Then again, they are trudging around a glacier on their own

A Dash for the Pole by Ethel Parkinson
Two children, wrapped up warm against the cold, enjoy a sleigh ride pulled by a tamed polar bear across an icy glacier

Tiefenbach Glacier
Glacier du Tiefenbach

New Zealand Mt Cook
showing the glacier system

Greenland Glacier
The glacier of Sermiatsialik

Amundsens Antarctic Expedition pitching camp, 1911
Photograph showing members of the Amundsen Antarctic Expedition of 1910-12 erecting their tent near Axel Heibergs Glacier, Antarctica, 1911

British Antarctic Expedition Route over the Beardmore Glacie
Illustration showing the route taken by Captain Scotts sledge party to climb the Beardmore Glacier, Antarctica, during the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910-12

Glaciers (Liebig) 6
6 - The ice front at the foot of the glacier, where more ice is lost through melting than is gained by snowfall

Glaciers (Liebig) 4
4 - Seracs form in a glacier fall

Glaciers (Liebig) 5
5 - Medial moraine of till (rocky detritus) deposited by a retreating glacier, and a table created by ice supporting a rock

Glaciers (Liebig) 3
3 - Crevasses form in the ice as the glacier flows over uneven terrain

Glaciers (Liebig) 2
2 - the glacier starts from a ring of neves or firns, imperfectly consolidated snow. Date: 1939

Dauphine Alps Climb
A man prepares to jump a tricky crevasse on the Pilatte glacier, in the Dauphine Alps

French Glacier
GLACIER D ARGENTIERE, Haute Savoie (France)

Schlatenkees Glacier, Hohe Tauern, Austrian Tyrol
View of the Schlatenkees, one of the dominant glaciers on the Hohe Tauern Mountains in the Austrian Tyrol, extending from the Grossvenediger Mountain eastwards for about 6 km

Greenland / Whale Sound
Whale Sound, north-west Greenland

Tasman Glacier
The Tasman glacier in New Zealand

Glacier in the Alps
A glacier in the Alps carving a valley between mountain peaks; a dark line of medial moraine is visible down the centre of the ice

A Glacier Table
Glacier tables, where a boulder has protected the ice and snow beneath it from solar melting; as the surrounding snow melts the rock is left atop a pillar of ice

Glacier, Nepal
Glacier in the Lumpa River valley, near Mount Api, Nepal

Erratic block in Rhone Valley, near Monthey, Switzerland
An erratic block, left behind by a melting glacier, in the Rhone Valley near Monthey, Switzerland. It is known as La Pierre des Marmettes, and has a small chapel built on top of it

Mer de Glace (Sea of Ice), Mont Blanc, French Alps
Termination of the Mer de Glace (Sea of Ice) in the Chamonix Valley, French Alps, the longest glacier in France (7 km long, 200 m deep. The Arveiron River escapes through a natural gateway

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