Glaciers Vanishing at Record Rate in Alps Following Heatwaves

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26 July 2022 14:13 WIB

26 Juli 2022 00:00 WIB

Belgian tourist Lisa Neyt talks to Reuters next to the Pers Glacier, at the Diavolezza area near the Alpine resort of Pontresina, Switzerland July 21, 2022. Normally, he heads down this path on the massive Morteratsch Glacier in late September, the end of the summer melt season in the Alps. But exceptionally high ice loss this year has brought him to this 15-square-kilometer (5.8-square-mile) amphitheatre of ice two months early for emergency maintenance work. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

26 Juli 2022 00:00 WIB

Snow from the last winter season is covered with blankets on a slope beside the top station of a cablecar at Diavolezza ski area near the Alpine resort of Pontresina, Switzerland July 21, 2022. The Alps' glaciers are on track for their highest mass losses in at least 60 years of record keeping, data shared exclusively with Reuters shows. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

26 Juli 2022 00:00 WIB

A woman poses beside a Swiss national flag near Mount Piz Palue and the Pers Glacier, near the Alpine resort of Pontresina, Switzerland July 21, 2022. Since last winter, which brought relatively little snowfall, the Alps have sweltered through two big early summer heatwaves – including one in July marked by temperatures near 30 Celsius (86 Fahrenheit) in the Swiss mountain village of Zermatt. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

26 Juli 2022 00:00 WIB

Hikers walk over the ice of the Chessjen glacier near the Britannia Hut refuge, near the Alpine resort of Saas-Fee, Switzerland July 19, 2022. During this heatwave, the elevation at which water froze was measured at a record high of 5,184 meters (17,000 feet) at an altitude higher than Mont Blanc's compared with the normal summer level of between 3,000-3,500 meters (9,800-11,500 feet). REUTERS/Emma Farge

26 Juli 2022 00:00 WIB

A moraine is seen on the Pers Glacier near the Alpine resort of Pontresina, Switzerland July 21, 2022. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

26 Juli 2022 00:00 WIB