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Glacier trekking and magical light shows: this photo trip with one of the best landscape photographers, Elmar Laubender and professional mountain guide Hermann Berie is sure to be your summer highlight! Time to look, time to capture and photograph with the photo expert...
The Great Aletsch Glacier is the most powerful glacier in the Alps. While there is a lot of snow at the top of the Jungfraufirn even in summer, the end of the glacier in the Valais changes very quickly. Follow this great stream of ice at a slow pace and learn a lot of exciting background information from your mountain guide along the way. Have you ever seen the intense blue at the bottom of a crevasse? Or when the glistening glacier ice flows into a magenta evening sky?
Photo expert Elmar Laubender will reveal tips and tricks from his many years of experience and together you will capture these two days in magical moments with your camera!
BERIE Plus points
- Photo tour and glacier trekking with professionals
- Hermann Berie (Guide) and photo expert Elmar Laubender
- It almost always goes downhill
- Comfortable pace and time to marvel and photograph
- Train ride through the ' to the Jungfraujoch
- The most powerful glacier in the Alps
- Insights into the ice and first-hand information
- sky high metal staircase to the Konkordiahütte
- Sun terrace and cosy hut atmosphere
- Optional: abseiling into a crevasse
The facts
T2-T3; Some experience on red-white-marked hiking trails of advantage
Condition: Normal
Surefootedness in pathless terrain at a slow walking pace
Intensive mountain and photo weekend with two professionals with the best from "two worlds
2 days guided tour and organisation with UIAGM Hermann Berie, a qualified mountain and ski guide
2 days photo coaching and exciting tips on mountain photography from photo expert Elmar Laubender (www.blueworldpixel.com)
Correct choice of aperture, exposure time, HDR shots, panorama with glacier and snow
Landscape, mountain photography by day or by night, Milky Way/Stars.
Level is for everyone.
Please bring your own:
Own camera/mirror reflex/system, fun taking pictures
Wide angle/telephoto lens
Filter system, if available
Harness and crampons on loan from BERIE
Introduction to the crampon technique
exciting information about the glacier of Mount Everest mountain guide Hermann Berie
1 x overnight stay, half board, packed lunch, touring tea in the Konkordiahütte
With a train ride through the Eigerwand to the Jungfraujoch (3450 m) into the UNESCO World Heritage Jungfrau-Aletsch, your tour already begins spectacularly. From up there, roped up by the mountain guide, you hike over the snow-covered glacier and past the "Jungfrau" to Konkordiaplatz and the hut of the same name. On the way there are also many 4000m peaks to marvel at. Here at Konkordiaplatz all the Glescher streams flow together and join to form the actual Aletsch Glacier. The ice is still almost 900 metres thick here. It feels impressive to stand in the centre of this flow. Via a long, steep metal staircase you reach the comfortable Konkordiahütte, perched on the rocks above the glacier panorama. Enjoy the welcome aperitif and marvel even more at the impressions of the day. Overnight stay at the Konkordiahütte with breathtaking sunset.
On the second day, you walk along the crevassed glacier stream of the Great Aletsch Glacier to Lake Märjelen. Here you have solid ground under your feet again, green cotton grass meadows and picturesque ponds welcome you after all the ice and snow. Last stop and finish with a delicious Rösti and cold drinks. In the early afternoon you hike another hour to Fiescheralp. Descent by cable car to Fiesch. Onward journey/home journey by train from Fiesch.
