Gauli Glacier

The Gauli Glacier is a 6. 2 km long glacier in the Bernese Alps in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. In 1973, it had an area of 17. 7 km². The glacier is famous for the 1946 C-53 Skytrooper crash on the Gauli Glacier and the following rescue mission, which was the first carried out by an aircraft landing on a glacier.