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Melaine Le Roy

4 years

Still at #merdeglace for Day 6 of #7daysoffieldwork to celebrate 10 years of sampling and ~400 subfossil wood samples retrieved from this single moraine ! 🌲💍 #treerings #fieldwork #chamonix

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@subfossilguy

2 years

Scary picture from yesterday morning showing Ecrins massif, southern glaciated area in the Alps, looking south. It now looks like a desert (literally, rocks and brownish sahara sands brought by multiple dust events from last months) No more snow, desolation. Credit @davideasnicar

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@subfossilguy

4 years

The largest glacier in the Alps, Grosser Aletschgletscher, as seen from Belalp | 1856 to 2020

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@subfossilguy

3 years

#Tschierva glacier and Piz #Bernina (4049 m a.s.l.) from Alp Ota (2257 m a.s.l.) 1895 | 2004 | 2021

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1 month

Venezuela is now ice-free! 🥵 First American country to lose all its glaciers! 🧊📈 2 ha Humboldt Gl. (here 2024 | 2008) is now static and was downgraded from glacier to ice field Next countries on the list: Indonesia, Mexico & Slovenia @extremetemps

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@subfossilguy

2 years

What did you do during the last 15 years? Mer de Glace did this...! This is exactly how long I have been working on this site. The moraine on the left is my main study site. Rate of lowering of the base-level, accelerated here, is stunning! (~80 m) Source @eb_climate_data

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@subfossilguy

22 days

To allow 600+ persons to have reached Everest summit (as of today), this is what the Base Camp on the Khumbu glacier looked like on 7th May... a proper city! 😳🤮 With all linked environmental problems when located at 5360m on debris-covered ice! 🚮 1/ 🎥 Satkauskas Mindaugas

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@subfossilguy

2 years

Capanna del Forno (2574 m a.s.l.) and Vadrec del Forno Graubünden, Switzerland 1920 | 2021 #ClimateCrisis #ClimateActionNow

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@subfossilguy

2 years

Glacier Blanc, Écrins Massif, French Alps 1995 | 2022 This summer Glacier Blanc has lost 3.40 metres of ice over its entire surface (average of 1.10 metres over the last ten years). At 2900 m asl, 10cm of ice melted daily, even at night! Credit @PnEcrins @bastamedia_

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@subfossilguy

10 months

'Glacier funeral' ceremonies are increasing but yesterday's one at Sarennes Gl. was partially prevented from taking place because @alpedhuez didn't like the publicity! 👎 Sarennes was 1st 🇫🇷 summer ski glacier in 1970 and is now... gone! Pic @INRAE_France (1906-2016) 1/

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1 month

Impressive stratigraphy visible in the seracs of the Mt Blanc du Tacul (4248 m asl) north face! ❄️⏳️ The record of February 2021 major saharan dust event is just mind-blowing! Pic. M. Colonel

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@subfossilguy

2 years

Withdrawal of #Gepatschferner tongue this summer (Tirol, Austria) Look at this collapse feature! 😰 It is the second largest glacier in Austria by the way, and one of the site where #Holocene variations are the best constrained in the Alps Video @S_Haselberger

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Melaine Le Roy

@subfossilguy

3 years

Mer de Glace from Signal Forbes (2200 m a.s.l.) 1890 | 2013

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@subfossilguy

2 months

Gepatschferner (Kaunertal, Austria) 2020 | 2023 Disintegration of the frontal area of the 2nd largest Austrian glacier during last four summers (incl. 2 hottest on record)🥵📈 Video @S_Haselberger

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Melaine Le Roy

@subfossilguy

3 years

Mer de Glace 1890 | 2013 | 2021 This is how the 3rd largest glacier in the Alps is doing lately... #ClimateEmergency #Chamonix #MerDeGlace #COP26 #COP26Glasgow #NeverEndingWithdrawal

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@subfossilguy

3 years

Mer de Glace 2008 | 2013 | 2021 Only 13 years... Larches are growing Lakes are filling Illusions are fading #Chamonix #MerDeGlace #Montenvers

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Melaine Le Roy

@subfossilguy

2 years

Mer de Glace tonight... This used to be the the best view point on the glacier front, but there is almost nothing to see from here now

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@subfossilguy

3 months

Snow stratigraphic survey at Lago di Lod (2015 m asl, Valtournenche, Italy) ❄️⏳️ Well visible Saharan dust layers deposited between the morning and afternoon of Saturday 30th March, already overlaid by some 20 centimetres of fresh snow. Source @andreavuoloo

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Melaine Le Roy

@subfossilguy

10 months

Emptying of Suicide Basin which caused the #Mendenhall Glacier #GLOF downstream, Juneau, Alaska 🌊❄️🔥

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Melaine Le Roy

@subfossilguy

9 months

81 hours without freezing...🔥🔥🔥 81 hours... 😱 at 4554 m asl in the Alps 0°C Isotherm at or > 5000 m 🔥🔥🔥 for 4 days now... This has never happened before, even in full summer Do you enjoy science fiction?😭 #MonteRosa #CapannaMargherita #Payerne

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Melaine Le Roy

@subfossilguy

2 months

Saharan dust layers deposited last saturday, here outcropping at 2310 m asl above Oberalppass (Central Switzerland)! ❄️⏳ Source @meteosuisse

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@subfossilguy

2 years

Clouds are Materhorn best friends today 😍

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@subfossilguy

2 years

6 m.e.t.e.r.s !! This is what Aletsch glacier, the largest glacier in the Alps, lost this summer at Konkordiaplatz, the place where ice is the thicker in the Alps... This level of ice melt was simply unbelievable up to... last year

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2 years

More than 6 meters of ice melt at Konkordiaplatz. Simply incredible. Something the climate scenarios had for the future. But now, we're already there... @VAW_glaciology

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Melaine Le Roy

@subfossilguy

8 months

New mind-blowing record of thickness loss at Ossoue glacier (Pyrenees) in 2023: 5 m, beating the 2022 loss (4.51 m)! 🔥 Since 2002, average melting rate has been 2m/yr. Significant acceleration over the last 2 years. Ossoue will likely be gone by 2030. Source: P. René (Moraine)

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@subfossilguy

11 months

This...... FAN!!! 🤩😍 King Oscar Fjord, Eastern Greenland Little Ice Age extent of these two alpine glaciers roughly corresponds to the apex of the fan Pic: @EdmaierAerials

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@subfossilguy

2 years

Another stunning example of how permafrost thawing is making our mountains crumbling this summer... The La Fourche bivouac (3674 m asl), one of the most spectacular hut in the Alps, fell down, the remains of it are now scattered on the #Brenva glacier... Source @Montagne_Alpi

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24 days

'Yellow Band' (~7700 m) on Mt Everest (8848 m asl) 20th of May What an achievement! 🙃 Pulling yourself up on ropes fixed by sherpas and polluting all the floors of this mountain Magic is gone, even imaginary world has been destroyed! F**** circus! 🤡 R. Dwivedi ( @EverestToday )

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Melaine Le Roy

@subfossilguy

1 year

What better way to start this year than with the pure, subtle and naive beauty of the pieces of Jean-Antoine Linck (1766-1843) He was a pioneering artist of the scientifically verifiable representation of high mountain areas from the end of the 19th c., a major breakthrough!😍 1/

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@subfossilguy

1 month

Northern lights reflected on the snow covered roof of Europe, the Mont Blanc (4806 m asl) on 10th of May! 😍 (📷 Webcam Auguille du Midi, 3842 m asl)

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11 months

Current state (31st July) of #Aneto Glacier, Although a 'very small' glacier (0.47 km²), it is the largest in the Pyrenees, and the highest 🏔️❄️ Mean remaining ice thickness is about 11 m...🔥 It was 15 m in 2020 and 35 m in 1981 Let's do the math! 🤔 Pic: #GerardoBielsa 1/

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@subfossilguy

10 months

Mer de Glace from Signal Forbes 🥰 1890 | 2013 | 2021 Considerable thickness loss and increased debris cover 😱❄️🪨 (Thanks @Fijnweer for slowing down the frames) 1/

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@subfossilguy

9 months

Yesterday another 'glacier funeral' ceremony took place. This time to alert on the fact that #Pasterze , largest Austrian remaining glacier, is about to lose connection to its accumulation area ❄️ The tongue is turning into a dead-ice body which is going to melt even faster 🔥 1/

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@subfossilguy

9 months

Aneto (3404 m) and Aneto Glacier from Maladeta Peak (3312 m) 🔥❄️ late July 1983 | early August 2023 And yet this is by far the best profile of this glacier today! In enfilade you get the impression of a continuous ice body, which is no longer the case 📷Lluis Diez Vilardebo

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@subfossilguy

8 months

Foehn time! 🌬 🥵 Almost 12°C in Chamonix right now... There are actually 2 holes opening in Bossons Glacier tongue ❄️ 😱 Definitely the beginning of the end for this natural monument admired by a few millions visitors every year.

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Melaine Le Roy

@subfossilguy

3 years

Walter Mittelholzer's #MerdeGlace 1919 aerial imagery 'aligned' with 2019 aerial pictures taken by @DJCAD researchers

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@subfossilguy

7 months

First known photograph of the Matterhorn (and maybe even of a mountain)! 🥰 Taken by John Hobbs and John Ruskin on 8th August 1849 from a viewpoint that was to become famous, Riffelsee

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@subfossilguy

5 months

DEVASTATING! 😡🥵 This what Pyrenees looks like above 2,000 m asl... early summer! Pic du Midi d'Ossau (2,884 m asl) at background @Meteo_Pyrenees

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@subfossilguy

9 months

Ice was still present on top of this stake (~7 m) hold by @matthias_huss one year ago! 🔥❄️ Another record ice loss year, close behind 2022, pictured here at Gries Glacier. These losses really mark a new era 😱 @CorsinManser Story here:

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Melaine Le Roy

@subfossilguy

2 months

Throwback to the former beauty of this now reshaped valley, which hosted most aesthetic Swiss glacier for me! 🗻❄️🪨 #Tschierva glacier with Piz #Bernina (4049 m asl), Piz #Scerscen (3971 m asl) and Piz #Roseg (3937 m asl) as seen from Alp Ota (2257 m asl) 1895 | 2004 | 2021

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@subfossilguy

2 years

Chardonnet (3824 m a.s.l.) seen from Trient glacier plateau, Mont Blanc massif 1985 | 2022 Pictures: O. Gavillet #DeIcing #Anthropogenic #ClimateCrisis

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@subfossilguy

8 months

Good morning Aletsch! 😍

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@subfossilguy

10 months

Pilatte Glacier, Ecrins Massif 🥰 2013 | 2023 This was a beautiful glacier, one of the largest in the Ecrins, perfectly shaped, occupying an entire cirque and emitting a small tongue Here's what's left.. 😭 Soon there will be nothing but scattered patches at high altitude @liuco

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Melaine Le Roy

@subfossilguy

2 months

Woww, brutal!! 😱 7am, 14 April 2024, a large rock avalanche occurred on West face of Piz #Scerscen (3970m, Bernina) around 3600m ~1 million M3 and 5 km runout! As a frequent visitor to the covered area, just got goose bumps! Pic SAC Bernina @davepetley 1/

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Melaine Le Roy

@subfossilguy

2 years

Morning Mer de Glace! 🥰

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@subfossilguy

11 months

Projection of Mer de Glace (Mt Blanc) evolution according to a median scenario (~2°C) ❄️🔥 MdG is the 4th largest glacier in the Alps (29 km² in 2015). @IGE_Grenoble @creamontblanc

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@subfossilguy

10 months

Ossoue Glacier 2000 | 2022 This is the largest glacier in the French Pyrenees and it has lost over the last two decades: 250 m length (11m/yr) 33 ha area (1.5ha/yr) 39 m thickness (1.8m/yr) Source (P. René) @OssoueGlacier

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@subfossilguy

10 months

A 700 m3 rock avalanche occurred at 5.15pm in Le Freney (Maurienne Valley, France) 😳 🪨 The boulders crashed into the protective wall that had been put in place to prevent such events. A43 highway is closed.

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@subfossilguy

10 months

Little Ice Age moraines of Mendenhall Glacier, Juneau, Alaska 😍 DEM processing: @Fijnweer

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@subfossilguy

7 months

Matterhorn Gabriel Loppé | 1867 Painted two years after Matterhorn first ascent, which is therefore no longer a terra incognita... Gorner, Theodul, Furgg and Zmutt Glaciers foreground to background.

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Melaine Le Roy

@subfossilguy

8 months

A random peak overlooking Humanity messy behaviour this morning 😍

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Melaine Le Roy

@subfossilguy

2 years

One more... After Tour Ronde north face and La Fourche bivouac, Cosmiques arête at Aiguille du Midi entered the Great Thawing Circus on tuesday

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@subfossilguy

10 months

Incredible picture of #Konkordiaplatz at #Aletsch Glacier 😳 Hardly any snow left below 3300 m asl at the accumulation zone of the largest glacier in the Alps, owing to current heatwave 🌡️ Pic @Alpenweerman

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7 months

Gran Neyron Glacier 2000 | 2023 Valsavarenche (Gran Paradiso, Italy) @BerroDaniele

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@subfossilguy

5 months

Aiguille de Blaitière (3522 m asl) tonight 😍

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Melaine Le Roy

@subfossilguy

2 years

Always emotional to arrive at this very place...! 🥰 All senses are saturated. Especially after hiking from the valley bottom (1900m vertical gain) Fore sure, the most famous curve in the Alps, and the view that does the most justice to our last Alpine ice stream.

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@subfossilguy

2 months

Mer de Glace this morning 😰 It remains a mystery to what extent private companies can be allowed to destroy the common good...🤬 This is the view you now have at one of the Alps' most famous site, disfigured by pylons! 🙏Seb Guillet for the pic

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Melaine Le Roy

@subfossilguy

10 months

Map of Mont Blanc massif, 1:40’000 😍 1876 by Eugène Viollet-Le-Duc Surveyed 1868-1875 by the talented architect and scientist. First published in 1874. Despite lack of contour lines, one of the first accurate map of the Massif, which was criticised for its 'aestheticism' (!)

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Melaine Le Roy

@subfossilguy

6 months

Mont Blanc and Mer de Glace as seen from Grands Montets this morning 😍 (Pic @guidemark )

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8 months

Mer de Glace, Dent du Géant (4013 m, background) and Grands Charmoz (3445 m) this morning! 🤩

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@subfossilguy

5 months

Lautaret chapelle and La Meije group this morning 🥰

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@subfossilguy

9 months

Distribution of summer heatwaves recorded in France since 1947. The curves represent the average daily temperature exceeding the threshold of 23.4°C 🔥 @garydagorn

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@subfossilguy

2 months

Impressive aerial view of Aneto north face (top of Pyrenees, 3404 m asl) on 13th April with Saharan dust layer from last week ❄️⛱️ Pic Gerardo Bielsa @meteobenas

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@subfossilguy

3 years

Bossons Glacier 2008 | 2013 | 2021 #Bossons is surely the most impressive glacier in the Alps! It is the steepest (29°) 'big glacier' (12 km²), which is kind of anomaly! Always a key player in the #Chamonix Ice-scape, but about to retire these days... #COP26 #ClimateCrisis

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@subfossilguy

2 years

Wallis giants this morning, Mischabels, Matterhorn and Weisshorn 🤩

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11 months

Stunning 2021 aerial view of Mer de Glace 😍 Lower tongue has thinned dramatically in recent years and turned into a heavily debris covered stagnant ice. Mountain landscapes are not a postcard to be shamelessly consumed. Find it beautiful? Care for climate! Pic @EdmaierAerials

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@subfossilguy

1 year

Snow cover in the Rhône basin (western Alps) just dropped below the lowest value since 1991 (and surely for much longer than that!) which was... 2022! Speechless... ...thinking about next summer drought and glacier mass balance 😥 Source: @sgascoin

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2 years

Incredible scenes due to record ice melt in the Alps this summer (Mont Fort Glacier, ca 2900 m asl, Verbier, VS) 🥵 The glacier here has lost 4m60 in thickness since mid-May! Record melt expected this year in Switzerland, 3m instead of 1m in recent years... Source @SylvainBesson

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9 months

Glittertind, Jotunheimen, Norway 1910 | 2023 Glittertind 'used to be' Scandinavia's highest mountain...! 🏅 Folowing entire melting of the summit ice cap, it has now retroceded to the 2nd place behind Galdhøpiggen (2469 m) Crazy elevation loss: 2481 m to 2452 m!😳 @brearkeologi

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10 months

Good morning Aletsch! ❄️🥰 10°C colder than 3 days ago at the same time... (📷Webcam Konkordiahütte)

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10 months

Mont Blanc massif today! ❄️🔥 Totall dry conditions with the current heatwave. No firn below ~3100 m on Mer de Glace accumulation basin (Géant Gl., centre) Safe to say that, this is bad... 😰 Pic @DaviFaranda

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2 months

The enormous and deadly 2017 Piz #Cengalo rock avalanche - one of the largest event in the Alps in recent past - had been caught on close-range video (Credit Reto and Barbara Salis, hut wardens at Sciora hut, 2120 m asl) 🪨🧊🌊

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3 years

Mer de Glace 1890 | 2013 | 2021 This is how the 3rd largest glacier in the Alps is doing lately... #ClimateEmergency #Chamonix #MerDeGlace #COP26 #COP26Glasgow #NeverEndingWithdrawal

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5 months

Mont Blanc from Pic Blanc du Galibier (2955 m asl) tonight 🥰

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5 months

Les Aiguilles de Chamonix tonight 😍

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2 years

Withdrawal of #Gepatschferner tongue (Tirol, Austria) over the last 3 years 😰 Thinning and discharge is just mind-blowing in 2022! 🥵 It is the 2nd largest glacier in Austria, and one of the site where #Holocene variations are best known in the Alps Video via @S_Haselberger

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9 months

Rhône Glacier 2022 | 2023 Such retreat rates are just beyond comprehension 🔥 Anybody who tells you otherwise has no idea what they're talking about. Pics: A. Cremona @VAW_glaciology @Enlaps_live @matthias_huss

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2 months

32°C at the foot of Pyrenees today! 🥵 24°C min temp tomorrow and even more than 32 in the afternoon! This would be considered too hot in full summer... but we are early April!! Unbelievable... especially after 26 consecutive months above the norm. @SergeZaka

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6 months

Prognosis for glacier loss in the Alps is worse than previously thought! 🔥 Commited ice loss (=irrespective of any climate change) for 2050 amounts to 35%! As this is an absolute lower bound, in fact it will be more than 50%, only 2.5 decades from now 😱

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8 months

Rhône Glacier tonight 😍 Thinner and thinner, Still majestic from above.

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10 months

Mer de Glace two days ago...😭 The white tarps correspond approximately to the location of the new Montenvers lower station under construction, as close as possible to the remaining ice. As you can see, a bright future awaits can't-walk ice-hungry visitors! Pic @pinpinmag

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5 months

Les Aiguilles d'Arves (3514 m asl) from Pic Blanc du Galibier tonight 🤩

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1 year

Lower Grindelwald Glacier (Bernese Alps) 1669 | 1748 | 1762 | 1775 It was the glacier reaching the lowest elevation in the Alps during the Little Ice Age (972 m asl) and the site with by far the oldest and richest pictorial documentation. 😍 1/

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11 months

Oulettes de Gaube Glacier july 1978 | july 2023 Sheltered by the Vignemale north face (3298 m asl) this small avalanche fed glacier is the lowest of the whole Pyrenees chain (~2400 m asl) and will soon be gone... ❄️🔥 Right pic from yesterday (source: @Meteo_Pyrenees ) 1/

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2 years

#Rockfalls in Goûter couloir on #MontBlanc normal route two days ago due to anomalously high temp. this summer. #Go ûter and Tête Rousse mountain huts are now closed (!) since yesterday to stop use of the area... Video credit @RedactionRMB

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5 months

Blazing Verte and Drus tonight! 🥰

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1 year

Morteratsch Glacier 1900 | 2022 We reconstructed the early Little Ice Age Maximum at this site during 14th century CE through tree ring dating of subfossil moraine wood GIF source: @VAW_glaciology @matthias_huss 1/

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8 months

Glorious apparition of Les Drus this morning! 🥰

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1 year

Hard to believe that this is what some of the highest mountains in the Alps look like tonight, 31st of december... Aiguille Verte (4122 m asl) and Les Drus (3754 m asl) Snow cover is barely present below 2000 m here 😳 #NoMoreWinter Pic: @guidemark

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2 years

Tonight from Konkordia hut 😍

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1 month

Mont Blanc (4806 m asl) today! 😍 North slope of Mt Blanc massif in majesty with Bossons (left) and Taconnaz (center) glaciers Bossons tongue looks atrophied and the hole appeared in summer 2023 as a result of 30 m thick. loss last 2 years is well visible Pic @EmilieJ16440547

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2 years

Piz Bernina (4049 m asl) through the prism of the collapsing Tschierva glacier tongue. Beauty out of Chaos.

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1 month

Full spring view from Vallorcine valley towards Mont Blanc massif giants today: Chardonnet (3824 m asl), Aiguille Verte (4122 m) and Mont Blanc (4806 m asl) 🤩 Fairly decent snowcover for the season in the western Alps with 225 cm at 2300 m asl ❄️ Pic @EmilieJ16440547

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4 months

Besides Pyrenees, snow cover is at an all-time low in the the Alps too, close to an absolute minimum compared with a 30-year climatology (1991-2021) based on the work of @sgascoin ❄️🌡️😱 App : Method:

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Melaine Le Roy

@subfossilguy

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2 years (2022 and 2023) = 10% glacier LOSS in the Alps! 🥵📈 O.N.L.Y. T.W.O. Y.E.A.R.S!😱 @CopernicusECMWF just released its European State Of The Climate report Check it out 👉

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Melaine Le Roy

@subfossilguy

5 months

Aiguille du Midi (3842 m asl) right now 😍

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Melaine Le Roy

@subfossilguy

2 months

Last 8 summers in the life of Pasterze, largest Austrian glacier ❄️🥵📈 The tongue lost 203,5m for the year 2023 alone! Timelapse summers 2016-2023 Source: Timelapse: @glacionaut

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Melaine Le Roy

@subfossilguy

4 months

W face of Mont Blanc emerging from a sea of clouds yesterday 😍 Mt Blanc de Courmayeur is right to main summit The steep glacier is 'Mt Blanc gl.', one of Miage gl. main tributary (now disconnected from trunk body :( Aig. Blanche de Peuterey (right) 📷S. Perrault @Meteovilles

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Melaine Le Roy

@subfossilguy

2 months

Two days after the Piz #Scerscen rock avalanche an impressive overview of the detachment scar took by @matthias_huss today! 🪨❄️😲 This event totally reshaped the cliff and ice cover!

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Melaine Le Roy

@subfossilguy

11 months

Pasterze Glacier 2010 | 2021 Dislocation of the largest Austrian glacier over the last decade! ❄️🔥 A lake replaced the floodplain where numerous early Holocene subfossil woods were found since the 1990s. The tongue is no longer fed by any accumulation. 1/ Pics: @EdmaierAerials

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Melaine Le Roy

@subfossilguy

8 months

🔥New paper alert!🔥 Just thrilled to see our new review paper on Holocene glacier variations in the Alps finally published! This comes 14 yrs after previous one by Ivy-Ochs et al (2009, QSR) My Tschierva pic made it to the cover of the book btw! ❄️ 1/

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