The Gauli Glacier () is a long glacier (2005) in the Bernese Alps in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. In 1973, it had an area of . The glacier is famous for the 1946 C-53 Skytrooper crash on the Gauli Glacier and the following rescue mission, which was the first carried out by an aircraft (Fieseler Storch) landing on a glacier.

A lake is located at the bottom of the glacier, at a height of 2,146 metres above sea level. Its surface area is 0.28 km²

Gauli Glacier

See also

List of glaciers in Switzerland

List of glaciers

Retreat of glaciers since 1850

Swiss Alps

References

External links

Swiss glacier monitoring network

Glaciers of the canton of Bern

Glaciers of the Alps

GGauli

Gauli Glacier