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Yep, I’m surprised at how many people in the comments are trying to argue that mountain glacier melt “happens anyway” and that we need to stop freaking out about man made climate change, based on their selective reading of certain scientific papers... though glad to see there are many others with their heads screwed on..
For the author (me 😬), it’s good to get out of the bubble and read input like this. I think there needs to be much much more of a focus on climate/changing mountain environments in climbing media imo..
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Great article, can't say I enjoyed reading it for obvious reasons though.
It's when you talk to the locals that you get a better idea of how much change there has been. We were in Saas Fee during a cold snap a few years ago. It was -25 in the mornings. The owner of our apartment reckoned that when he was a kid it'd be close to that cold in the mornings for two months straight. Now days, a once every two or three year phenomenon.
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Enjoyed the article, lost an hour on the comments. Would bang my head again +
Stonehedge
inchpincher
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.