Young Pinus cembra recently damaged by an avalanche against the backdrop of a glacier entirely damaged by human activity! 🧊🔥
Bossons Glacier today 🤍
📷 by @lomdumtblanc.bsky.social 🙏
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! 🏔️🧊🥰
Most icy landscape of the rest of your life... 🔥
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Large subfossil log sampled in the Trient Glacier lateral moraine last year and just tree ring dated to the 1285/86 CE winter! 🧊🌲💍
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....)
Melting glaciers today in Chamonix! 🧊💧💦
We just out fom the longest May period with average temperature >2°C (5 days) at Aiguille du Midi (3842 m asl), a threshold for cryospheric change at high elevation glaciers! 🏔️🔥
Picture: @lomdumtblanc.bsky.social
Data: Xavier Cailhol
Bossons glacier today!
📷 by @lomdumtblanc.bsky.social
The year before the hole appeared in Bossons (here 10th Sept 2022), it still retained its incredible and endless tongue spreading across the valley! 😍
A vision that gave me goosebumps every time! 🤍
Now lost forever.
We are losing beauty,
in addition to our ability to live on this planet
Argentière serac ice cliff gazes huge recent ice loss! 🧊🔥
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 🤮
