Rocky path revealed between Swiss glaciers in extreme melt season
ZANFLEURON PATH, Switzerland (Reuters) – A rocky Alpine path between two glaciers in Switzerland is rising for what the native ski resort says is the primary time in not less than 2,000 years after the most popular European summer time on document.
The ski resort of Glacier 3000 in western Switzerland mentioned this yr’s ice soften was round 3 times the 10-year common, that means naked rock can now be seen between the Scex Rouge and the Zanfleuron glaciers at an altitude of two,800 metres and the cross will likely be utterly uncovered by the tip of this month.
“About 10 years in the past I measured 15 metres (50 toes) of ice right here so all that ice has melted within the meantime,” mentioned Mauro Fischer, a glaciologist on the College of Bern’s Institute of Geography.
“What we noticed this yr and this summer time is simply extraordinary and it is actually past every part we have now ever measured to date,” he added, referring to the velocity at which the ice has melted.
Since final winter, which introduced comparatively little snowfall, the Alps have sweltered by means of two huge early summer time heatwaves. The Alps’ glaciers are actually on monitor for his or her greatest mass losses in not less than 60 years of record-keeping, knowledge confirmed.
(Reporting by Denis Balibouse; Writing by Emma Farge and Francois Murphy; Modifying by Raissa Kasolowsky)
