Mer de Glace, Chamonix Valley, France
Looking up the Mer de Glace from the railway station.
The Mer de Glace is 14km long (the second longest glacier in the Alps), 1800m wide, and 400m deep in places. It moves at 45m a year on its fringes, and 90m a year in the middle.
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