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Assiduous dendroglaciologist, moraine lover, wandering geomorphologist, living in the Holocene, climate (and eco-) anxious, @edytem_fr

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Gepatschferner (Kaunertal, Austria) 2020 | 2023 Disintegration of the frontal area of the 2nd largest Austrian glacier during last four summers (incl. 2 hottest on record)🥵📈 Video Stefan Haselberger

Gepatschferner (Kaunertal, Austria) 2020 | 2023 Disintegration of the frontal area of the 2nd largest Austrian glacier during last four summers (incl. 2 hottest on record)🥵📈 Video Stefan Haselberger

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Incredible serac fall from Hengsteren Glacier on Wetterhorn (3,690 m, Grindelwald) 🧊 37 degrees in the valley yesterday when this serac carve off 🥵 Meanwhile on the Monta Rosa the same day the temp at 3500m was between 6 and 13°C! 🔥 🎥 Kenton Cool

Incredible serac fall from Hengsteren Glacier on Wetterhorn (3,690 m, Grindelwald) 🧊 37 degrees in the valley yesterday when this serac carve off 🥵 Meanwhile on the Monta Rosa the same day the temp at 3500m was between 6 and 13°C! 🔥 🎥 Kenton Cool

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Stunning overview of former bed of the now gone Birch Glacier shot yesterday from the right lateral moraine 😲😱 INCREDIBLE to think that there WAS a glacier here just few days ago! The area above the glacier still holds ~300,000m3 of debris Source D. Farinotti VAW Glaciology

Stunning overview of former bed of the now gone Birch Glacier shot yesterday from the right lateral moraine 😲😱 INCREDIBLE to think that there WAS a glacier here just few days ago! The area above the glacier still holds ~300,000m3 of debris Source D. Farinotti VAW Glaciology

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Glacier Blanc (Ecrins massif) 1995 | 2022 Yeah, but we are in an Interglacial! 🤣 Those ice bodies are following a woke political agenda! Pics Parc national des Écrins Gif made by Basta! Via Maxime Combes 1/

Glacier Blanc (Ecrins massif) 1995 | 2022 Yeah, but we are in an Interglacial! 🤣 Those ice bodies are following a woke political agenda! Pics Parc national des Écrins Gif made by Basta! Via Maxime Combes 1/

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Intense rock falls in the North Face of Aiguille du Midi yesterday! 🥵 🎥 Philippe Batoux

Intense rock falls in the North Face of Aiguille du Midi yesterday! 🥵 🎥 Philippe Batoux

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2022 summer was the worst on record for glacier loss! 🔥😱 It foreshadows what summers will be like from now on, as 2025 looks almost similar... 😭 Here is a 9-months timelapse of Mer de Glace (Dec. 2021-Sept. 2022) ending with those terrible melt rates 🎥laplaceduvillagetv

2022 summer was the worst on record for glacier loss! 🔥😱 It foreshadows what summers will be like from now on, as 2025 looks almost similar... 😭 Here is a 9-months timelapse of Mer de Glace (Dec. 2021-Sept. 2022) ending with those terrible melt rates 🎥laplaceduvillagetv

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Collapse of a serac below Gobba di Rollin (3 898 m,Val d'Ayas) last sunday! Via @meteovalledaosta

Collapse of a serac below Gobba di Rollin (3 898 m,Val d'Ayas) last sunday! Via @meteovalledaosta

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To allow 600+ persons to have reached Everest summit (as of today), this is what the Base Camp on the Khumbu glacier looked like on 7th May... a proper city! 😳🤮 With all linked environmental problems when located at 5360m on debris-covered ice! 🚮 1/ 🎥 Satkauskas Mindaugas
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To allow 600+ persons to have reached Everest summit (as of today), this is what the Base Camp on the Khumbu glacier looked like on 7th May... a proper city! 😳🤮 With all linked environmental problems when located at 5360m on debris-covered ice! 🚮 1/ 🎥 Satkauskas Mindaugas

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1,726,665 views • 2 years ago

INCREDIBLE !! Here we are... 😱😱😱 After days of overloading and cracks propagating, Birch Glacier collapsed over Blatten today at 3:24 pm and dammed the Lonza river... Devastating! 😭
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INCREDIBLE !! Here we are... 😱😱😱 After days of overloading and cracks propagating, Birch Glacier collapsed over Blatten today at 3:24 pm and dammed the Lonza river... Devastating! 😭

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188,606 views • 1 year ago

Seeing Blatten buried again and again, from every angle... Properly staggering! 😮😱
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Seeing Blatten buried again and again, from every angle... Properly staggering! 😮😱

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153,074 views • 1 year ago

Iran is facing its worst drought since at least 6 decades!😱🔥💧 As a result the iconic Damavand (5,609 m), Iran's highest mtn, was snowfree at mid-autumn, which is likely unprecedented! ❄️😰 This peak had a 3.4 km² ice cover in 2002, all gone today 🧊📈 📽️ Iran International English
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Iran is facing its worst drought since at least 6 decades!😱🔥💧 As a result the iconic Damavand (5,609 m), Iran's highest mtn, was snowfree at mid-autumn, which is likely unprecedented! ❄️😰 This peak had a 3.4 km² ice cover in 2002, all gone today 🧊📈 📽️ Iran International English

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84,938 views • 6 months ago

Latest Blatten aerial survey 4:30 pm! 🚁 Authorities expect the lake to overflow the dam this night or at last early tomorrow morning! 🌊 They have partially emptied a dam lake 6km down the valley and are ready to evacuate Gampel/Steg in the Rhone valley during the night 🎥 SRF
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Latest Blatten aerial survey 4:30 pm! 🚁 Authorities expect the lake to overflow the dam this night or at last early tomorrow morning! 🌊 They have partially emptied a dam lake 6km down the valley and are ready to evacuate Gampel/Steg in the Rhone valley during the night 🎥 SRF

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116,053 views • 1 year ago

Incredible timelapse of last september 20,000 m3 rockslide at St. Annagrat above Andermatt (UR), which fell onto the remnants of the St. Annafirn glacier 🔥🧊✝️ 📽️ GEOTEST AG / Stefan Tobler
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Incredible timelapse of last september 20,000 m3 rockslide at St. Annagrat above Andermatt (UR), which fell onto the remnants of the St. Annafirn glacier 🔥🧊✝️ 📽️ GEOTEST AG / Stefan Tobler

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32,035 views • 2 months ago

INSANE... 😱 Real crazy stuff here at Rima, 1400 m asl (Upper Val Sarmenza, Piemonte, IT) After INTENSE rainfall today (306 mm at Boccioleto, 600 m asl lower in the same valley, so likely more here!), the water held back by a burst snow plug spills out! 🌊 Via Stefano Di Battista
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INSANE... 😱 Real crazy stuff here at Rima, 1400 m asl (Upper Val Sarmenza, Piemonte, IT) After INTENSE rainfall today (306 mm at Boccioleto, 600 m asl lower in the same valley, so likely more here!), the water held back by a burst snow plug spills out! 🌊 Via Stefano Di Battista

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93,609 views • 1 year ago

A serac broke off high on the steep Ultar Glacier and the avalanche reached the Hunza Valley, covering Karimabad and surrounding with snow and dust! 🧊❄️😱 Ultar Sar (7,388 m) is the peak at the background right! 🏔️ 🎥 karimiehunzai
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A serac broke off high on the steep Ultar Glacier and the avalanche reached the Hunza Valley, covering Karimabad and surrounding with snow and dust! 🧊❄️😱 Ultar Sar (7,388 m) is the peak at the background right! 🏔️ 🎥 karimiehunzai

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46,817 views • 6 months ago

This is what Blatten looked like on 14th July 2022! ⌚️ NOTHING . IS . LEFT 🌊 Because of anthropogenic climate change! 📈 Note the river Lonza, which is heavily laden with sediment = melwater from Langgletcher during the 2022 summer record heatwave! 🔥 🎥 SWISS 280
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This is what Blatten looked like on 14th July 2022! ⌚️ NOTHING . IS . LEFT 🌊 Because of anthropogenic climate change! 📈 Note the river Lonza, which is heavily laden with sediment = melwater from Langgletcher during the 2022 summer record heatwave! 🔥 🎥 SWISS 280

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70,815 views • 1 year ago

Another collapse from Croda Marcora (3154 m, Sorapis group, Dolomites, Cortina) this morning at 9:30 am! Crumbling of this area is becoming so recurrent over last weeks/months... 😱 Source: ilDolomiti
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Another collapse from Croda Marcora (3154 m, Sorapis group, Dolomites, Cortina) this morning at 9:30 am! Crumbling of this area is becoming so recurrent over last weeks/months... 😱 Source: ilDolomiti

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59,512 views • 10 months ago

Mind-blowing event yesterday east of Annapurna II (NE face visible here, 7937 m, Nepal)! 😱 Probably triggered by ice (+rock?) avalanche at high elev., given the reach and absence of snow at the moment 🧊 The extent of the aerosol is... HUGE! ❄️ Source
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Mind-blowing event yesterday east of Annapurna II (NE face visible here, 7937 m, Nepal)! 😱 Probably triggered by ice (+rock?) avalanche at high elev., given the reach and absence of snow at the moment 🧊 The extent of the aerosol is... HUGE! ❄️ Source

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77,205 views • 1 year ago

MASSIVE amount of sediments are exported downvalley after extreme torrential events in the Alps! 🌊🪨 Here in Valpelline, a crater tens of meters deep opened up 300 m south of Aosta Hut (2788 m, south of Matterhorn)! 😱 Incision downstream is extreme too
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MASSIVE amount of sediments are exported downvalley after extreme torrential events in the Alps! 🌊🪨 Here in Valpelline, a crater tens of meters deep opened up 300 m south of Aosta Hut (2788 m, south of Matterhorn)! 😱 Incision downstream is extreme too

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107,116 views • 1 year ago

The italian side of Mont Blanc is literally crumbling these days! 🔥🪨 Here is a shootage SE from Gonella Hut towards a steep tributary of Miage Gl. 3 days ago A large rock avalanche (size of this block!) fell from ~3500 m and eroded part of the glacier 🎥 Verticalfrontiers/IG
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The italian side of Mont Blanc is literally crumbling these days! 🔥🪨 Here is a shootage SE from Gonella Hut towards a steep tributary of Miage Gl. 3 days ago A large rock avalanche (size of this block!) fell from ~3500 m and eroded part of the glacier 🎥 Verticalfrontiers/IG

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52,765 views • 10 months ago

Avalanche with huge aerosol this morning on Rochefort Glacier below Dent du Géant (4013 m) seen here from Courmayeur area! ❄️🌊 📽️Cinzia Geraci (Meteo Valle d'Aosta)
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Avalanche with huge aerosol this morning on Rochefort Glacier below Dent du Géant (4013 m) seen here from Courmayeur area! ❄️🌊 📽️Cinzia Geraci (Meteo Valle d'Aosta)

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19,208 views • 3 months ago

Stunning paraglacial landsliding on Brouillard Glacier today! 😱 (Italian side of Mont Blanc) 🎥 David Picchedda / IG
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Stunning paraglacial landsliding on Brouillard Glacier today! 😱 (Italian side of Mont Blanc) 🎥 David Picchedda / IG

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40,833 views • 11 months ago

‘We are the last generation that can act!’ 🔥 Glaciers around the world are melting so fast we need to store ice cores in a sanctuary for next generation of researchers to have raw material to study! 🧊🔬 ICE MEMORY facilities just opened 2 days ago in Antarctica! 🙏 Via AFP News Agency
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‘We are the last generation that can act!’ 🔥 Glaciers around the world are melting so fast we need to store ice cores in a sanctuary for next generation of researchers to have raw material to study! 🧊🔬 ICE MEMORY facilities just opened 2 days ago in Antarctica! 🙏 Via AFP News Agency

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21,449 views • 4 months ago

Drone footage of the Blatten deposit shot on 12th November! 😲 🎥 epfl_lhe_lab
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Drone footage of the Blatten deposit shot on 12th November! 😲 🎥 epfl_lhe_lab

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26,377 views • 6 months ago

Impressive rock avalanche on the Aiguille Noire de Peuterey (3773 m, Italian side of Mont Blanc) on 17th July! 😲🔥 Via MeteoValledAosta / IG
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Impressive rock avalanche on the Aiguille Noire de Peuterey (3773 m, Italian side of Mont Blanc) on 17th July! 😲🔥 Via MeteoValledAosta / IG

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38,288 views • 10 months ago

New heli flight today afternoon over Blatten 🚁🎥
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New heli flight today afternoon over Blatten 🚁🎥

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41,093 views • 1 year ago

Marinelli Glacier (Cordillera Darwin) 1913 | 2024 Another mind-boggling comparison! 🧊🔥 Marinelli Gl. has lost >15 km during this period! 😲 Mte Shipton (2568 m) at the background is highest peak in CD 🏔️ 📷 1913: pano made of 5 pics by Alberto de Agostini 📽️ 2024: C. Donoso
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Marinelli Glacier (Cordillera Darwin) 1913 | 2024 Another mind-boggling comparison! 🧊🔥 Marinelli Gl. has lost >15 km during this period! 😲 Mte Shipton (2568 m) at the background is highest peak in CD 🏔️ 📷 1913: pano made of 5 pics by Alberto de Agostini 📽️ 2024: C. Donoso

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23,014 views • 6 months ago