Gornergletscher 2011All photos, unless otherwise noted, were taken on August 17th, 2011. | |||
 Overview from Rotenboden; far left Liskamm, on the right Breithorn. |  The moon is setting behind the Matterhorn. |  Repeat photo 16.8.2004 (top) and 17.8.2011. |  Small ice-dammed lake below Gornergrat. |
 Glacier table with block of strongly folded gneiss. |  Big double fold in the foliation. |  Cryoconite hole with meltwater pond; Monte Rosa in the background. |  Cryoconite hole in the bubble-rich, very brigt ice of Grenzgletscher. |
 Deep blue, clear ice layers under the meltwater in a cryoconite hole. |  Ice ships near a medial moraine on Gornergletscher. |  The largest meltwater pond on the lower tongue of Gornergletscher. |  On the shore of the same meltwater pond. |
 Panorama photo of the meltwater pond, looking towards Monte Rosa and Liskamm. |  Panorama photo of the meltwater pond, looking towards Gornergrat and Monte Rosa (far right). |  Foliation and strand lines on the shore of the large meltwater pond. |  Pattern in the cryoconite which has settled on the bottom of the meltwater pond. |
 Freshly exposed bedrock along the true right margin of Gornergletscher. |  Erratic and spectacular boudinage along the margin of Gornergletscher. |  Variegated boudinage in the metamorphic rocks along Gornergletscher. |  Big glacier table, medial moraine and Matterhorn. |
| Photos Jürg Alean. | |||