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I remember going up on the mer de glacé to do a route, only for the start to be around 30m off the deck as a result of the glacier receding so much. That was 2014.
And we ended up climbing mostly on the aiguille rouges instead as all the classic rock routes on the other wise get far too much rockfall now as the freezing level has risen so much.
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It's so depressing I'm not sure what to say that the article hasn't.
We've seen glaciers we climb on lose 75m+ in a single summer. We've seen mountain huts collapse because of the melting permafrost. Every winter trip seems to be warmer and snowier.
Shits changing.
From a climbing perspective, rockfall is a much bigger risk than it was.
Not ashamed to admit that I sometimes find myself standing on rock where it was ice only a few years earlier with tears in my eyes.