The year before the hole appeared in Bossons (here 10th Sept 2022), it still retained its incredible and endless tongue spreading across the valley! š
A vision that gave me goosebumps every time! š¤
Now lost forever.
We are losing beauty,
in addition to our ability to live on this planet
Melaine Le Roy
Large subfossil log sampled in the Trient Glacier lateral moraine last year and just tree ring dated to the 1285/86 CE winter! š§š²š
Means that the Medieval early-LIA advance has reached the level of late-LIA (eg 19th c.) as we already show elsewhere in the Alps (journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....)
Melaine Le Roy
Glacier des Bossons towered by 4,000ers (Mont Blanc du Tacul, 4,248 m and Mont Maudit, 4465 m) as seen from La Jonction today! šļøš§š„°
Most icy landscape of the rest of your life... š„
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Young Pinus cembra recently damaged by an avalanche against the backdrop of a glacier entirely damaged by human activity! š§š„
Bossons Glacier today š¤
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ArgentiĆØre serac ice cliff gazes huge recent ice loss! š§š„
Thinking that back in 2009, both parts of the glacier were still connected!
Now the serac no longer feeds the lower body, which sags at an incredible speed!
A monumental natural amphitheatre, soon entirely de-icing because of us š¤®
Melting glaciers today in Chamonix! š§š§š¦
We just out fom the longest May period with average temperature >2Ā°C (5 days) at Aiguille du Midi (3842 m asl), a threshold for cryospheric change at high elevation glaciers! šļøš„
Picture: @lomdumtblanc.bsky.social
Data: Xavier Cailhol
Bossons glacier today!
š· by @lomdumtblanc.bsky.social
