Jungfraujoch - Lötschenlücke - Blatten

ise wrote:..... the second problem is more serious though, the visibility is so poor that some micro-navigation is needed to avoid the two large crevasses near the top of the glacier, so for a short section we're all in a line picking our way through....

Just spotted this thread. Care to enlarge a little on the above? Were you familiar with the glacier and where the crevasses were at the time?

clubman wrote:

ise wrote:..... the second problem is more serious though, the visibility is so poor that some micro-navigation is needed to avoid the two large crevasses near the top of the glacier, so for a short section we're all in a line picking our way through....

Just spotted this thread. Care to enlarge a little on the above? Were you familiar with the glacier and where the crevasses were at the time?

only just seen your reply, I've been away a while ) The main glacier complex is fairly accurately marked on the map there and several of the group had routes/tracks on GPS and/or annotations on local maps. Half a dozen local/localish guides/IML's/accompagnateurs/aspirants etc helps when you're trying to avoid falling in a hole though.