Found in the Gran Sasso d'Italia mountain group, it lies just beneath the Corno Grande, the highest peak in the Apennines.

[1][2][3][4] If present deglaciation trends continue, the Calderone may soon disappear as well.

The discovery of a number of small glaciers in the Accursed Mountains in 2009 seemed to threaten Calderone's positions.

In 1998 Italian glaciologists at a symposium in L'Aquila predicted that the Calderone would vanish within a couple decades.

By the end of August 2014, the volume of residual ice was larger than during the same period in 2013.