Matthias Huss, glaciologist and member of the Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland, walks on the Gries glacier during a trip to check measurement equipment in Gries, Switzerland, on September 2 2022. Picture: REUTERS/DENIS BALIBOUSEThe belting heatwaves that struck Europe over the past few months handed the specialists in Alpine ice sheets an unprecedented set of challenges.
Glaciers are a much-discussed, and sometimes anthropomorphised, indicator of climate change. Their demise is also becoming deadly for mankind. This summer’s high temperatures in Europe led to a glacial ice shelf collapse in Italy that ended the life of 11 hikers. The Himalayas are also losing ice at an accelerated rate.
By last Tuesday, which is when I tracked him down, Huss was in the middle of the Glacier de la Plaine Morte above the Rhone Valley. His team from ETH Zurich and the University of Fribourg were having a little trouble with their boring equipment. “It hurts, in my heart as a mountaineer, as a mountain lover, but as a scientist it’s really an interesting time,” Huss says.
The melting Alpine glaciers have uncovered the bodies of long-lost mountaineers, the wreckage of a light aircraft that came down in 1968, along with other revelations that have made front page news.
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