The Hanging Wall Glaciers

The lake of the hanging glacier is located at the end of the rather long horsethief creek valley just outside of invermere.

The hanging wall glaciers.

If the entire system has melted and disappeared the empty high valleys are called hanging valleys. For those without a car getting to ventisquero colgante hanging glacier is an adventure in itself. This is hanging above a ravine of bare rock. It dominates a valley formed by mountains covered in valdivian temperate rainforest and feeds a river at the bottom of the valley as it melts.

A hanging glacier originates high on the wall of a glacial valley and descends only part of the way to the surface of the main glacier and abruptly stops typically at a cliff. We knew our only options were to either pay a worker at the tourism office in town to drive us there or to hitchhike. A hanging glacier forms high on the mountain wall of a glacial valley and descends only part of the way down to the surface of the main glacier body and then abruptly stops in these cases forming. It is the biggest attraction of queulat national park.

Dana glacier located in the northern cascades in washington state culminates in an icefall as the glacier flows over a nearly vertical cliff. Avalanching and icefalls are the mechanisms for ice and snow transfer to the valley floor below. A hanging glacier on mount shuksan. These are called hanging glaciers.

We opted to hitchhike. Ventisquero colgante or the hanging glacier can be found in the queulat national park in chile.