Begining in the beautiful circus that is Argentière, this glacier has been the centre of a lot of interest. Touristically it offers beautiful views of falling ice avalanches. Scientifically, because the glaciologists regulary work in the glacier bed.
The glacier is suspended above the hamlet of Le Tour.
As you enter Chamonix you can't not impressed by the Bossons Glacier, «The bigest ice fall in Europe
Known throughout the world for more than 250 years, the great “frozen river” attracts, today as yesterday, thousands of visitors each year.
The Taconnaz glacier joins his big brother, The Bossons glacier, joining at "La Jonction", the big Mont-Blanc glacier. It is here where Jacques Balmat found, in 1786, the route to the Mont Blanc.
