gampert

Updated: June 6, 2025

M. Gampert, in the summer of 1823, found a strong and very cold current of air descending by this fissure, along with water which ran from it over the ice; he believed that this was refrigerated by evaporation, in passing through the thickness of the moist rock.

G. F. (George Forrest) Browne - Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland