Fieschertal 4 by jcv2

Photography • Landscape • posted on Jan 20, 2006

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Once on the concrete track we find ourselves hiking carefully along a steep precipice, with here and there steel-wire to give us grip. Here we look down - you might feel the vertigo as we felt it (on the right bottom you see (very small) a few iron bars of stairs going down) - on the end of the glacier, ice covered by pebbles and black ice (covered with thin dark material) and the melt-water running down to the right. The smooth rocks (right bottom) show the effect of centuries of ice and rocks that have scratched this rockface like a giant sander. Red traces in the rocks (or the red rocks of yesterday) show the presence of iron in the rocks. Obviously no one noticed the hut behind the trees yesterday. It was the Burghütte at 1750 m (5741 ft) where several mountain tracks in different directions meet. We passed the hut to continue our hike. Minolta X-700 (Fuji Sensia 100, 70 mm) Thanks for your attention and your always valuable comments

Comments (39)

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nongo

7:50PM | Fri, 20 January 2006

I think I'm getting dizzy at this sight!!!! LOL!!!! I'm always amazed at the color of the water??!!!! excellent image Jan-Carel!!!!!!!

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sharky_

8:24PM | Fri, 20 January 2006

I can just imagine the feeling looking down. Impressive capture. Aloha

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redchilicat

9:33PM | Fri, 20 January 2006

I think you are brave to hike to these places. I would be scared if I were dependent on a thin wire to hold me up. The size of the rocks really mess with your head and make it appear to be a shallow puddle...weird.... Excellent photography!

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Punaguy

10:43PM | Fri, 20 January 2006

Now this really does give me vertigo! I'm not really afraid of heights but this perspective made me a little queasy...a very kewl shot and another informative image...careful now, this looks really dangerous! Aloha!

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jocko500

11:10PM | Fri, 20 January 2006

I know I afear of heights so I most likely would not be there . this is lovely

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maud

2:17AM | Sat, 21 January 2006

Fantastic scene..Great capture!* :)

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Cosine

11:03PM | Sat, 21 January 2006

Wow! The place where the water comes out looks so interesting, but it must be a very dangerous place. Just look at the cracks in the ice just above it. Be careful, JC.

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