Morteratschgletscher

First walk of the holiday was up to the Morteratsch Glacier. I was particularly excited about this as I've never seen a glacier in real life and I was really looking forward to it.

The walk up the valley to the glacier has signs showing where the glacier extended to in years past. The difference from 1900 to now is nearly 2 kilometres which is quite sad in a way.

I loved this walk a lot. It runs alongside the river that flows from the glacier and the water has that particularly beautiful grey-green colour to it. And then when you get to the end of the walk and the sign that reads "Go any further and on your own head be it, matey"*, there it is. A glacier. Huge doesn't come into it. It's absolutely beautiful. The colours in the ice are just beautiful.

And I just stood there in Awe. Thinking that this thing changes every day, it's moving, cracking, breaking and it's doing it on a such a huge scale that my little brain started to whimper when I tried to do some number crunching.

And this was just the morning. the afternoon was a walk up to Diavolezza. Really, a day I won't forget.

*I'm paraphrasing here.