Chaltwasser glacier

Chaltwasser glacier
Chaltwasser glacier with Chaltwassersee, Monte Leone and Chaltwasserpass (2018)
location	Valais , Switzerland
Mountains	Leone group
Type	Slope glacier
length	2 km
surface	2.6 km²
Exposure	North
Altitude range	3553  m above sea level M.  -  2756  m above sea level M. From Monte Leone to Chaltwassersee
Coordinates	649 718  /  122 267 coordinates: 46 ° 15 '0 "  N , 8 ° 5' 0"  O ; CH1903:  649718  /  122 267
drainage	Chaltwasser glacier → Chalti water → Taferna → Saltina → Rhone → Golfe du Lion and Chaltwasser glacier → Torrente Cairasca → Diveria → Tosa → Ticino → Po → Adria

Chaltwasser in the
middle of the picture the Simplon Pass and the hospice (2011)

The Chaltwasser glacier is located on the northern slope of 3553  m above sea level. M. high Monte Leone in the Swiss canton of Valais .

geography

The glacier extends from the top of Monte Leone to the lake of the same name, the Chaltwassersee, which is 2756  m above sea level. M. lies. In earlier times, ice was broken down on the Chaltwasser glacier. A witness of this work is the depicted old stone tower, which served as a cable car anchorage. From here ice was transported to the Simplon Pass road built under Napoleon . On old drawings from the stagecoach period you can see how the Chaltwasser glacier reached to the place of the depicted stone tower.

Remains from the time of ice mining on the Chaltwasser glacier

The Chaltwasser glacier lies on the watershed between the Po and the Rhone . The Chalti water rises from the Chaltwasser glacier , several streams which finally pass the Simplon pass road at the Chaltwassergalerie and flow together in the Taferna. The water continues to flow over the Saltina and the Rhone into the Mediterranean . A small part of the water of the glacier flows over the Torrente Cairasca, the Diveria , the Tosa , the Ticino and the Po into the Adriatic Sea .

From Lake Chaltwasser, a path leads over the Chaltwasser Pass to Italy . North and above the Chaltwassersees is the Monte Leone Hut of the Swiss Alpine Club , can view from which one the Chaltwassergletscher. The national border between Switzerland and Italy runs from the Monte Leone hut, past the Chaltwasser lake and across the Chaltwasser glacier to the top of Monte Leone.

Web links

Commons : Chaltwasser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Chaltwasser glacier on the map of the Federal Office of Topography
2. ↑ Chaltwassersee.Retrieved September 12, 2018
3. ↑ Walliser Bote: Glacier Ice Cools Aperitifs Accessed on September 20, 2018
4. ↑ Reference wanted
5. ↑ See e.g. B. Drawing in Der Simplon p. 75, Hans Peter Nething, Ott Verlag Thun, 1077, ISBN 3-7225-6310-0
6. ↑ Torrente Cairasca on the map of the Federal Office of Topography