The Otemma Glacier is a glacier in the Pennine Alps in the canton of Valais, Switzerland, measured at 7.7 kilometers long in 2005, down from 8.7 kilometers in 1973. Like most Alpine glaciers it has been receding, retreating a further 1.2 kilometers between 1973 and 2010, and the terminus of its snout zone collapsed in the summer of 2018.
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The Otemma Glacier (French: Glacier d'Otemma) is a 7.7 km (4.8 mi) long glacier (2005) situated in the Pennine Alps in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
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