The Pasterze, the longest glacier in Austria, lies within the Hohe Tauern mountain range in Carinthia. The summit on the left side of the image is the Grossglockner, Austria's highest mountain (3,798 m = 12,461 ft). Due to global warming, the Pasterze, once a proud glacier filling the valley, is rapidly fading away. Actually, the Pasterze is the fastest-dying Glacier in the Alps. In 2013 it lost about 100 meters of its length.