Gauli Glacier

#1349 among destinations in Switzerland

Nature, Natural attraction, Natural feature

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The Gauli Glacier is a 6.2 km long glacier in the Bernese Alps in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. In 1973, it had an area of 17.7 km². The glacier is famous for the 1946 C-53 Skytrooper crash on the Gauli Glacier and the following rescue mission, which was the first carried out by an aircraft landing on a glacier. ()

Local name: Gauligletscher Length: 3.85 miCoordinates: 46°36'55"N, 8°9'56"E

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BernSwitzerland

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Gauli Glacier – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Schreckhorn, Wetterhorn, Lauteraarhorn, Rosenhorn.

2.8 miSW
Prominent mountain with a base hut
Schreckhorn
73 min walk • The Schreckhorn is a mountain in the Bernese Alps. It is the highest peak located entirely in the canton of Berne. The Schreckhorn is the northernmost Alpine four-thousander and the northernmost summit rising above 4,000 metres in Europe.
2.9 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Wetterhorn, Grindelwald
75 min walk • The Wetterhorn is a peak in the Swiss Alps towering above the village of Grindelwald. Formerly known as Hasle Jungfrau, it is one of three summits on a mountain named the "Wetterhörner", the highest of which is the Mittelhorn and the lowest and most distant the Rosenhorn.
2.8 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Lauteraarhorn
72 min walk • The Lauteraarhorn is a peak of the Bernese Alps, located in the canton of Bern. Together with the higher Schreckhorn, to which it is connected by a high ridge, it lies between the valleys of the Lower Grindelwald Glacier and the Unteraar Glacier, about 10 kilometres southeast of Grindelwald, the closest locality.
1.8 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Rosenhorn
46 min walk • The Rosenhorn is a peak in the Bernese Alps in the Bernese Oberland. It is lowest of the three composing the Wetterhorner massif, and most distant from the alpine village of Grindelwald to the southwest.
2.4 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mittelhorn
61 min walk • The Mittelhorn is a peak in the Swiss Alps close to the village of Grindelwald. It is the highest of the three composing the Wetterhorner massif.
3.3 miW
Alpine hut, Hiking
Gleckstein Hut
86 min walk • The Gleckstein Hut is a mountain hut of the Swiss Alpine Club, located east of Grindelwald in the canton of Bern. The hut lies at a height of 2,317 metres above sea level, above the Upper Grindelwald Glacier, at the foot of the Wetterhorn in the Bernese Alps.
2.8 miN
Alpine hut, Hiking
Dossen Hut
71 min walk • The Dossen Hut is a mountain hut of the Swiss Alpine Club, located south of Meiringen in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. It lies at a height of 2,663 metres above sea level, on the watershed between the Reichenbachtal and the Urbachtal, north of the Dossen.
2.3 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Dossen
60 min walk • The Dossen is a mountain in the Bernese Alps, overlooking Rosenlaui in the Bernese Oberland. It is located east of the Rosenlaui Glacier. The Dossen is composed of two summits: the northern summit and southern summit.
3.1 miS
Mountain
Hugihorn, Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
78 min walk • The Hugihorn is a peak of the Bernese Alps, overlooking the Unteraar Glacier in the canton of Bern. It lies south of the Klein Lauteraarhorn, on the range separating the Strahlegg Glacier from the Lauteraar Glacier, both tributaries of the Unteraar Glacier.
3.4 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Mattenalpsee
88 min walk • Mattenalpsee is a reservoir in the municipality of Innertkirchen, Canton of Berne, Switzerland. Its surface area is 18.6 ha. The reservoir receives the water from Gauli Glacier. The water is channeled into Räterichsbodensee.
1.3 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Hangendgletscherhorn
33 min walk • The Hangendgletscherhorn is a mountain of the Bernese Alps, located in the Urbachtal in the canton of Bern. On its northern side it overlooks the Gauli Glacier.