Image Bank - French Alps

This small, but excellent collection of images has been provided by Hugh Mothersole, Head of Geography at Wycombe High, Buckinghamshire (visit the school's website). Using these images of current glacial activity with images from the Scottish Hill, for example, Ben Challum collection, offers the opportunity to devise worksheets and interactive exercises on present and past glaciated landscapes.

Left click on a thumbnail for a larger image and the option to save the image to your computer. Compare these views with the satellite images available from NASA.
Images	Description	Links to exercises created using this image
	Argentiere glacier. Very clear view of typical upland glaciated landscape.	For future development
	A closer view of the valley glaciers, aretes, cirques and pyramidal peaks.
	Argentiere glacier. Medial moraines and crevasses criss cross the glacier's surface.
	Bosson glacier. The glacier's path down a steep-sided valley results in numerous crevasses.
	Cirque Grand Monet. Ice covers most of this cirque or corrie
	The Mer de Glace. An excellent view of the glacier, the moraine, truncated spurs and distant pyramidal peaks.
	The Mer de Glace. The surface ice is almost obscured by the moraine.
	The Mer de Glace. A closer view of the moraine and the steep-sided valley.
	The Mer de Glace snowfield at the highest point.
	Mont Blanc - the highest peak in the French Alps.
	The Chamonix valley. A marked contrast with the rest of this collection. Altitude affecting vegetation, transport and settlement patterns.

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