H) Monte Perdido Massif

The Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park is presided over by the summit of Monte Perdido (3,355 m), the third highest in the Pyrenees together with Punta Astorg in the Aneto-Maladeta Massif.

The Monte Perdido Massif includes thel Glacier of the summits of Soum de Ramond, Pico de Añisclo (3,254 m), Monte Perdido (3,355 m), Cilindro de Marboré (3,335 m) and Marboré (3,248 m). The list of main summits in the sector is completed by Punta de las Olas (3,003 m) and, at the end of the Pineta Valley, Gran and Petit Astazú, at 3,071 and 3,012 m, whose glaciers are located on the Gavarnie slope. All the ice described in the Monte Perdido Massif is located in Aragonese territory.

During the Little Ice Age, it was the third massif with the largest glacier surface area in the Pyrenees (320.2 ha) after Aneto-Maladeta and Perdiguero: it is estimated that it contained 13.4% of the ice of the entire mountain range.

Between 1982-1985, a total of 5 glaciers and 4 ice fields were located in the massif. Two of these have since become extinct, with only the lower glacier of Monte Perdido (59) remaining active. Another 6 glaciers complete the sector as a whole.

Its current 24.5 ha of glacier ice have lost 92.3% of their area in the 175 years since the end of the Little Ice Age, making it the second largest massif in the Pyrenees. This represents 19% of the glacial ice of the entire mountain range and 30% of the glacial ice located in Aragon.