Telling glacier

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Inner valley glacier
location Blatten , Canton of Valais , Switzerland
Mountains Bernese Alps , Western Alps
Type Valley glacier
surface 4 km²
Altitude range  -  2900  m above sea level M. (highest point missing)
Coordinates 628 222  /  144960 coordinates: 46 ° 27 '19 "  N , 7 ° 48' 22"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and twenty-eight thousand two hundred twenty-two  /  144960
Tellingletscher (Canton of Valais)
Telling glacier
drainage LonzaRhone
Template: Infobox glacier / maintenance / altitude range incomplete

The Tellingletscher is a glacier in Switzerland in the Bernese Alps .

The south-facing glacier lies below the Birghorn and the Petersgrats far above the Lötschental in the area of ​​the municipality of Blatten . Its ice masses cover approx. 4 km² and reach up to approx. 2900  m above sea level. M. down. In the west the glacier is connected to the Tennbach glacier , in the east with the Üsser Talgletscher and in the north via the Petersgrat with the Kanderfirn . The runoff is via the Lonza into the Rhone as a receiving water into the Mediterranean .