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GLACIER "MÖNCH SÜD"
Risk type: ice avalanches

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Type:  Hanging glacier
Country:  Switzerland
Region:  Goms
Massif/Ice Cap:  
Municipality:  Fieschertal
Municipality code:  
Location:  Swiss coordinates: (642'800/156'000). Located south of the Mönch.
 
Latitude (°, cent):  46.51
Longitude (°, cent):  8.01
Surface (km2):  0.2
Lenght (km):  0.5
Width (km):  
Min. altitude (m):  3600
Max. altitude (m):  4100
Orientation (°)  180
Slope (°)  45

EVENT:  Date  5/7/1984 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Ice avalanches
Description  340'000 m3 ice broke from hanging glacier Mönch and slid over a horizontal distance of 690 m.
Effects:  The path to the Mönchsjochhut was spilled.
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

Alean, J., 1984 - Untersuchungen über Entstehungsbedingungen und Reichweiten von Eislawinen. Ph.D thesis, ETH-Zurich. Mitteilungen der VAW, Nr. 74

EVENT:  Date  14/5/1982 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Ice avalanches
Description  Ice block (55 m3) slid over the humid firn for a distance of 470m. The slide could not be calculated.
Effects:  
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

Alean, J, 1985 - Ice avalanche activity and mass balance of a high altitude hanging glacier in the Swiss Alps. Annals of Glaciology, 31(109):324-333.
Alean, J, 1984 - Ice avalanche and a landslide on Grosser Aletschgletscher. Zeitschrift für Gletscherkunde und Glazialgeologie, 20:9-25