Calderone glacier (Corno Grande - Gran Sasso - Italy)
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Calderone glacier (Corno Grande - Gran Sasso - Italy)

by Nicola Morgantini, ARPA - Umbria (Italy) - Regional Environmental Protection Agency, Perugia, Italy

Calderone glacier view from normal route to Corno Grande East peak (2903 m asl). This glacier, the southernmost glacier of Europe, is subject to a marked retreat in the last decades. In background there is the Corno Grande West peak (2912 m asl, highest point of the Apennines range), formed by carbonate rocks.