Crusoe Glacier east sideThe eastern margin of Crusoe Glacier is particularly well accessible from the new basecamp and does not require crossing major meltwater streams. Also, a few hundred metres uphill from Crusoe-Baby Lake, walking on to the glacier surface is possible as the glacier margin is becoming much flatter than lower down. | |||
 Snout of Crusoe Glacier on a warm day with strong runoff (July 2nd, 2008). |  Massive meltwater stream from Crusoe Glacier emerging from a small gorge and entering the outwash plain. |  Masses of broad-leaved willow herb (Chamaenerion latifolium) in the sheltered valley in front of Crusoe Glacier's snout. |  Ice cliff at the terminus. The glacier front is advancing and pushing the meltwater channel more and more into the hill on the left. |
 Ice debris from cliff collapse (right), meltwater falling from the glacier surface (centre) and deeply eroded lateral meltwater channel (left; fisheye lens; July 10th, 2008). |  After flowing intraglacially, the lateral meltwater channel re-emerges from the ice and forms a massive waterfall which causes an impressive, thundering noise (July 10th, 2008). |  Within four days the water has eroded noticable into the ice, and the waterfall emrges at a lower level. An older, abandoned channel appears further up (July 14th, 2008). |  The cliff along the glacier margin has collapsed over a length of several hundred metres (July 6th, 2008; fisheye lens). |
 Recently fallen ice blocks from a cliff collapse are very angular in shape but will get rounded as ablation continues. |  Some of the ice blocks show, in their freshly exposed surfaces, patterns of foliation. |  Fresh cliff collapse a few hundred metres upglacier from Crusoe-Baby Lake (July 10th, 2008). |  Water under hydrostatic pressure is jetting out from the surface near the eastern margin of Crusoe Glacier (July 10th, 2008). |
 Exposed bedrock, cleared from moraine, indicates that Crusoe Glacier has begun thinning up here, approximately 500 metres upglacier from Crusoe-Baby Lake. |  Gently undulating glacier surface below a small icefall of Crusoe Glacier (July 10th, 2008). Colour Peak is visible at the image centre. |  Caribou teeth found on Crusoe Glacier (July 10th, 2008). |  Meandering meltwater channel on Crusoe Glacier (July 10th, 2008). |
 Meltwater pond formed on a closed crevasse below a small icefall. |  Looking downglacier; Little Matterhorn and Bastion Ridge in the far distance (July 10th, 2008). |  After a day's fieldwork the camp is a welcome sight beyond the gorge in front of Crusoe's snout. |  Aerial view of Crusoe Glacier's tongue in 1977 (August 8th). |
| Photos Jürg Alean | |||