“The huge white sheet”. This is how in 1800 an astonished Douglas W. Freshfield - an English explorer – described the Adamello, the biggest Italian glacier. 17 km2 covered in ice, between Lombardy and Trentino; it has a maximum thickness of 230 meters which makes it the “deepest” national glacier.
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