The scenic glacier next to the road over the Furka pass retreated dramatically over the past 150 years. Pictures from 1870 show the ice reaching to the village of Gletsch in the valley. Now the ice is almost 3 km further back disappearing behind
of a 450 m high ice-polished slope. A lake is forming at the foot of the shrinking Rhone glacier.
Rhone Glacier 1906
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