The Mer de Glace ("Sea of Ice") is a valley glacier located on the northern slopes of the Mont Blanc massif, in the French Alps. It is 7.5 km long and 200 metres (660 ft) deep but, when all its tributary glaciers are taken into account, it can be regarded as the longest and largest glacier in France, and the second longest in the Alps after the Aletsch Glacier.[1][2]: 5, 20
I can no otherwise convey to you an image of this body of ice, broken into irregular ridges and deep chasms than by comparing it to waves instantaneously frozen in the midst of a violent storm.
— William Coxe 1777
^"La Mer de Glace et le Train du Montenvers à Chamonix Mont-Blanc". www.chamonix.net (in French). Retrieved February 2, 2024.
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The MerdeGlace ("Sea of Ice") is a valley glacier located on the northern slopes of the Mont Blanc massif, in the French Alps. It is 7.5 km long and...
large proportion of the massif is covered by glaciers, which include the MerdeGlace and the Miage Glacier – the longest glaciers in France and Italy, respectively...
western Alps and that of the southern Alps. Climatic conditions on the MerdeGlace are similar to those found on the northern side of the Swiss Alps.: 26 ...
a connection with the SNCF, in Chamonix, to the Hotel de Montenvers station, at the MerdeGlace, at an altitude of 1,913 m (6,276 ft). The line is 5.1 km...
in the 18th century for a portion of the Alps glacier, now known as MerdeGlace, on the northern slopes of the Mont Blanc massif. Alternative spellings...
Englishmen who visited the MerdeGlace in 1741. In 1742 came P. Martel and several other Genevese, in 1760 Horace Bénédict de Saussure, as well as rather...
Aiguille du Plan, either returning to the cable car or descending the MerdeGlace from the 'Plan' to the Requin Hut or continuing to Montenvers. Mont Blanc...
receives water from the many glaciers of the Chamonix valley (mainly the MerdeGlace) before flowing north-west into the Rhône on the west side of Geneva...
Mont Blanc (4,810 m) Aiguille du Dru (3,754 m) Aiguille Verte (4,122 m) MerdeGlace, Dent du Géant (4,013 m) and Grandes Jorasses (4,208 m) in Chamonix (c...
universe. Fawcett and his wife became the first people to ascend the MerdeGlace by automobile in 1909. Fawcett returned to England and in 1947, he married...
Europe) MerdeGlace Glacier d'Argentière Glacier d'Arsine Glacier d'Ossoue Glacier de Bellecote Glacier de Bionnassay Glacier de Borne Pierre Glacier de la...
is the starting point of a ski run via the Glacier du Géant and the MerdeGlace to Montenvers and Chamonix. The mountain is the starting point of various...
Other Mont Blanc glaciers have also been in retreat, including the MerdeGlace, which is the largest glacier in France at 12 km (7.5 mi) in length but...
Melbourne spring racing carnival he rode the Japanese-trained horses MerDeGlace and Lys Gracieux in their respective Caulfield Cup and W. S. Cox Plate...
at Villarodin-Bourget, Savoy. The glacier scenes were filmed on the MerdeGlace beneath Mont-Blanc and above Argentiere in the Chamonix Valley, Haute-Savoie...
ranges. For a part of the way, between the summit of Brevent and the Col de la Croix du Bonhomme, the route coincides with the European long-distance...
Delzangles, Admire Rakti (2014) for Japanese trainer Tomoyuki Umeda and MerDeGlace (2019) for Japanese trainer Hisashi Shimizu. The worst race fall in Australian...
valley. Such truncated spurs can be found in mountainous regions. The MerdeGlace, in the European Alps, is a valley through which a glacier currently...
the Mont Blanc Massif of the French Alps. It is located between the MerdeGlace and Argentiere Glacier, and can be climbed from the Grands Montets cable...
Arveyron is a left tributary to the river Arve, rising in the famous MerdeGlace just above Chamonix in south-eastern France. It flows into the Arve in...
Refuge de la Charpoua) is a refuge in the Mont Blanc massif in the Alps. Built in 1904 , it is located above the north bank of the MerdeGlace under the...
of these were both 14.9 kilometres (9+1⁄4 miles) a century ago, the MerdeGlace at Chamonix (now 7.6 km or 4+3⁄4 mi) and the Gorner Glacier at Zermatt...
were hit by a large hammer. Dilation faulting can be observed in recently de-glaciated parts of Iceland and Cumbria. The polar ice caps of Mars show geologic...
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