Valsorey Glacier

Mount Vélan seen from "El Llano del Corredor". To the left, the Valsorey glacier and to the right, the Tseudet glacier.

The Valsorey Glacier (in French: Valsorey Glacier) is an alpine glacier in the Pennine Alps, Canton of Valais, Switzerland. It is about 3.5 km long and an average width of 500 m, covering an area of ​​2.5 km².

It is born of snow falling on the summit of Mount Vélan, southeast of the Grand Combin (3700 msm). The glacier runs in a curve, first to the northeast and then to the north. To the east it is flanked by a ridge with several peaks, on which passes the border between Switzerland and Italy. The western limit is Mont de la Gouille (3212 msm). The glacier tongue is currently at 2,400 meters high. Here the Valsorey stream is born, which pours its waters into the Dranse River, a tributary of the Rhone.

In its greatest development during the Little Ice Age, this glacier descended more than 16 km, and received, and still receives, ice from another glacier north of Mount Vélan, the 2.8 km long Tseudet Glacier ,

Near the glacier is the refuge of Valsorey, which is the starting point of one of the stages of the Haute Route.

Coordinates: 45 ° 54'35 "N 7 ° 16'13" E / 45.90972, 7.27028

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