The Aargletschers, literally "Aare-Glaciers", are a system of

glacier A glacier (; or ) is a persistent body of dense ice, a form of rock, that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. It acquires ...

s located at the sources of the

Aare The Aare () or Aar () is the main tributary of the High Rhine (its discharge even exceeds that of the latter at their confluence) and the longest river that both rises and ends entirely within Switzerland. Its total length from its source to i ...

river in the

Bernese Alps The Bernese Alps are a mountain range of the Alps located in western Switzerland. Although the name suggests that they are located in the Berner Oberland region of the canton of Bern, portions of the Bernese Alps are in the adjacent cantons of Va ...

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. In the original German the name is "Aargletscher" both in singular and plural, as in German the plural of "gletscher" is only marked by a change of the article: der Gletscher (one glacier), die Gletscher (many glaciers). The Aargletschers are constituted by two distinct partial glacier systems: * Unteraargletscher: composed by the converging ''Lauteraargletscher'' and ''Finsteraargletscher'', between the Lauteraarhorn,

Finsteraarhorn The Finsteraarhorn () is a mountain lying on the border between the cantons of Canton of Bern, Bern and Valais. It is the highest mountain of the Bernese Alps and the List of prominent mountains of Switzerland, most prominent peak of Switzerland. ...

() and

Grimselsee The Grimselsee or Lake Grimsel is an artificial lake near the Grimsel Pass in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. With a volume of 95 mio m3 (20.9 billion imperial gallons, 20.1 billion US gallons), it is larger than other hydroelectric reservoirs in ...

(). * Oberaargletscher: between Oberaarhorn () and Oberaarsee (). Grimselsee and Oberaarsee are recent reserve lakes. The "...-Aar-Horns" are summits of more than 3600 metres above sea level, two of them even above 4000 metres.

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* Swisstopo (CH 3084 Wabern): ''Landeskarte der Schweiz 1:100 000'' ** No. 37 ''Brünigpass'' ** No. 42 ''Oberwallis'' Glaciers of Switzerland Glaciers of the Alps Glaciers of the canton of Bern Aare GAar {{Bern-glacier-stub

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