The Schneeferner in the Bavarian Alps is Germany's highest and largest glacier. Schneeferner glacier is located on the Zugspitzplatt, a plateau south of...

Northern Schneeferner with an area of 30.7 hectares and Höllentalferner with an area of 24.7 hectares. Shrinking of the Southern Schneeferner led to the...

Höllentalferner is predicted to exist over a longer time perspective. The Südliche Schneeferner has almost vanished since the 1980s. Bavaria is divided into seven administrative...

on the Zugspitze Massif. The Partnach is fed by meltwaters from the Schneeferner glacier some 1,100 m (3,600 ft) higher up. The glacier's meltwaters seep...

Ledeshdvi Lekhziri Glacier Mna Notsarula Tsaneri Tviberi Höllentalferner Schneeferner Watzmann Glacier Blaueis Barkárdalsjökull Eiríksjökull Eyjafjallajökull...

rock strata. The erosion force of the Partnach stream, fed from the Schneeferner glacier on the Zugspitzplatt plateau, was great enough to carry away...

ledge (Zugspitzplatt); below and to the east is the ski region on the Schneeferner with its research station, the Schneefernerhaus. The three peaks are...

Schneefernerkopf 2,874 (9,429) Wetterstein Zugspitze 1.7 (1.1) Zugspitze 175 (574) Schneeferner wind-gap 1871 Hermann von Barth 3 Middle Wetterspitze 2,750 (9,020) Wetterstein...

hectares (61 acres) (as of 2006) it is almost as big as the nearby Northern Schneeferner, the largest glacier in Germany. It is about 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) long...

decades, this process is expected to be similar to what happened to the Schneeferner at the Zugspitze. Due to the loss of ice mass stability in the glacier...