Diablerets Glacier, glacier in Diablerets massif, Switzerland. Do not confuse with the Tsanfleuron glacier.
The Diablerets Glacier is a small glacier covering roughly 1 km² on the summit of Les Diablerets, in the Bernese Alps on the border of the Vaud and Valais cantons. It is often confused with the much larger Tsanfleuron Glacier nearby, which is also reached from the village of Les Diablerets.
The Diablerets Glacier lies on the summit of Les Diablerets, on the western side of the Bernese Alps on the border between the cantons of Vaud and Valais. It covers roughly one square kilometre. Because it is not visited by tourists, it is often confused with the nearby, much larger Tsanfleuron Glacier, which is also called Diablerets Glacier since it is reached from the village of Diablerets.
The glacier shares its name with Les Diablerets, the mountain whose summit it covers; "Diablerets" means "the devil's place" in the local dialect. Because the climb to the nearby Tsanfleuron Glacier starts from the village of Les Diablerets, that larger glacier is also called Diablerets Glacier, and the two are often confused.
The glacier sits on the summit of Les Diablerets, on the border between the cantons of Vaud and Valais. It is not a tourist site and has no marked access of its own; the cable cars and the Peak Walk belong to the neighbouring Tsanfleuron Glacier, reached from the village of Les Diablerets.
The Diablerets Glacier is often mistaken for the far larger Tsanfleuron Glacier, which is also called Diablerets Glacier because it is reached from the village of Diablerets. The Peak Walk by Tissot, the suspension bridge between two summits at about 3,000 m, belongs to Tsanfleuron, not to this small glacier on the summit of Les Diablerets.
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