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The small Kraspesferner glacier is one of the dying ones. I guess in a few years this one has vanished. Photo taken 6/Sep/2008. Compare with this shot a few months earlier.
Note the heavy rockfall from Rotgrubenspitze which makes the ascent quite dangerous if you' re too close to the wall...
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[ Post a Comment ]| Ejnar Fjerdingstad | It certainly looked | | 
Voted 10/10 | more impressive when I saw it in 1955! | | Posted Sep 18, 2008 10:58 am |
 | | Lukas Kunze | Re: It certainly looked | | 
Hasn't voted | Wow, that' s a long time ago! Do you have photos from that time?? I give the glacier a maximum of 10 years until it is gone :(
Cheers Lukas | | Posted Sep 18, 2008 3:33 pm |
| | Ejnar Fjerdingstad | Re: It certainly looked | |
Voted 10/10 | I have some old B/W photos from the summit of Kraspesspitze, for some reason (probably economy!) I did not take any photos downward over the glacier, but I remember it reaching down to a little lake. I also saw it from Haggen, though, and it looked pretty much like on the map in my father's guide of the Stubai Alps from 1925! I wanted to walk up to the end of it, then at about 2500 m, but we did not have time, being on our way home | | Posted Sep 19, 2008 6:35 am |
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