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Suspendu Glacier

Suspendu Glacier, Alpine glacier in Tignes, France.

Suspendu Glacier, formerly the glacier de la Sache, hangs on the south-facing slope of the dômes de la Sache and des Platières in the Vanoise massif, Savoie, between roughly 3,350 and 3,100 metres. It has no glacial tongue: a broad white snowfield with grey rock breaking through narrows into a steep, crevasse-lined tongue above fractured rock. Its ice feeds the regenerated glacier du Plan about 400 metres below.

The glacier was formerly called glacier de la Sache, after the dômes de la Sache whose south face it occupies. It lies between roughly 3,350 and 3,100 metres, below the 3,588-metre and 3,473-metre summits, and has no glacial tongue. Its ice feeds the regenerated Plan glacier about 400 metres below, and meltwater from both forms the ruisseau de la Sachette, which reaches the Isère at Les Brévières.

The glacier's meltwater and that of the regenerated Plan glacier below it form the ruisseau de la Sachette, which joins the Isère at Les Brévières after only a few hundred metres. The ice sits on the sunny adret of the dômes de la Sache and des Platières, and the site lies within the Tignes-Champagny national nature reserve.

The glacier sits between roughly 3,350 and 3,100 metres on the sunny slope of the Dômes de la Sache and Platières, in the Vanoise massif above Tignes. It has no glacial tongue: its ice feeds the regenerated Plan glacier about 400 metres below. Meltwater from both glaciers forms the Ruisseau de la Sachette, which reaches the Isère at Les Brévières after a few hundred metres.

The glacier has no glacial tongue: its ice drops about 400 metres to feed the regenerated Plan glacier below. Meltwater from both glaciers forms the Ruisseau de la Sachette, which joins the Isère at Les Brévières after only a few hundred metres. The glacier lies within the Tignes-Champagny national nature reserve, on the edge of the Vanoise national park.

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