Denis Balibouse Balibouse

Editorial, 2015

The melting of the Great Aletsch glacier

A goat rests at the Platta viewpoint as a group of hikers (background on R) trek in the distance on the Aletsch Glacier in Fiesch, Switzerland, August 12, 2015.

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Mountain guide Christian Pletscher looks towards the Aletsch Glacier from the Jungfraufirn Glacier, Switzerland, August 28, 2015.

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Water from the melting glacier runs down through a hole in the Aletsch Glacier on the Jungfraufirn Glacier, Switzerland, August 28, 2015.

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Hikers begin their descent to the Aletsch Glacier in the early morning from the Konkordia Hut, Switzerland, August 29, 2015.

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Hikers arrive to walk down 460 steps to reach the Aletsch Glacier after spending the night at Konkordia Hut, Switzerland, August 29, 2015.

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Mountain guide Christian Pletscher walks on the Aletsch Glacier

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A close-up view of ice shaped by melting water is pictured inside a glacier cave on the Aletsch Glacier in Fiesch

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The Aletsch Glacier is pictured from the Eggishorn summit in Fiesch, Switzerland, August 22, 2015.

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Projektbeschrieb

The project is part of a serie for Reuters and its clients called "Earthprints" that look at the impact of Global Warming at 10 selected places around the world We went on and around the Great Aletsch glacier, one of Europe's biggest glaciers, that coils 23 km (14 miles) through the Swiss Alps - and yet this mighty river of ice could almost vanish in the lifetimes of people born today because of climate change. The glacier, 900 metres thick at one point, has retreated about 3 km since 1870 and that pace is quickening. Andreas Vieli, a professor who heads the University of Zurich's group of glaciology experts, said the Aletsch may lose 90 percent of its ice volume by 2100, with the lower reaches melting away.

Publikationsinformationen

Titel der Arbeit
The melting of the Great Aletsch glacier
Agentur
Reuters
Kunde
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