Andrews Glacier is a small alpine glacier in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, sitting in a cirque below Otis Peak at 3,806 meters. It descends from Andrews Pass at nearly 12,000 feet to about 11,700 feet, with its perennial snow extending down to Andrews Tarn, a small proglacial lake below the ice. Comparisons of early 1900s photographs with images from the early 2000s show the glacier has a negative mass balance and continues to retreat.
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Andrews Glacier is an alpine glacier in a cirque below Otis Peak (12,486 ft (3,806 m)) in Rocky Mountain National Park in the U.S. state of Colorado.
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