Lower Grindelwald Glacier

The Lower Grindelwald Glacier is a Glacier in the Swiss Bernese Alps, situated to the south-east of Grindelwald. It starts below the Agassizhorn and the Strahlegghörner and is connected with the Finsteraar Glacier via the Finsteraarjoch.

The Lower Grindelwald Glacier yet has a major tributary, the Ischmeer, which is the glacier overlooked by the Jungfrau Railway's Eismeer railway station.

The Lower Grindelwald Glacier was about 8.3 kilometres long and covered an area of 20.8 km2 in 1973. The glacier has significantly shrunk since, having a length of just 6.2 kilometres in 2015, with most of the retreat happening since 2007.In the middle of the 19th century it clearly reached into the valley of Grindelwald as far as Mettenberg at an altitude of 983 m, an…