Pasterze#

Pasterze Glacier, valley glacier in the Grossglockner Mountains, largest glacier in Austria, nature reserve, stretches from the firnfield of the Johannisberg mountain (alt. 3,460 m) to the south east. It reached its glacial maximum in 1856, but since then its length and thickness have been decreasing. Strata are Pasterze bed (Boden), Upper, Middle and Lower Pasterze glacier. The glacier grows from neve basins in the Pasterze bed (Boden). The crevasse of the ice fall is quite steep and thick where it meets the Middle Pasterze stratum, the zone of glacier ablation. The Glocknerstrasse road leads to the Pasterze glacier.