Mer de Glace 2007 | 2024 The largest french glacier has lost ~95 m in thickness during this period at 1700 m asl! 😱 This is called collapse! Webcam: Cie du Mt Blanc (@MONTBLANC_NR) Archiving: J-M Friedt and @IGE_Grenoble Credit: EarthBreath Data: glacioclim.osug.fr/Donnees-des-... - ThreadSky

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subfossilguy.bsky.social • 47 days ago

Mer de Glace
2007 | 2024

The largest french glacier has lost ~95 m in thickness during this period at 1700 m asl! 😱

This is called collapse!

Webcam: Cie du Mt Blanc (@MONTBLANC_NR)
Archiving: J-M Friedt and @IGE_Grenoble
Credit: EarthBreath
Data: https://glacioclim.osug.fr/Donnees-des-Alpes

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onegirlarmy.bsky.social•7 days ago

I am going through a travel journal belonging to my grandmother and just found these snapshots she took in 1930! “Mer de Glas, Mont Blanc.” So I am learning about it.

subfossilguy.bsky.social•7 days ago

Thanks a lot for sharing! 🤍
If you have other glacier pics I'm interested ❄️

onegirlarmy.bsky.social•7 days ago

Here are 4 more. I have a total of 6. I can send these to you if you find they’d be useful. I’d prefer that to just sitting in a dark box. (You can scan and get better pics - I’m using iPhone 7.)

subfossilguy.bsky.social•7 days ago

Oh, thank you so much!
I love seeing this place - that has changed so much and where I've carried out so much fieldwork - from this Roaring Twenties tourism angle!
What is the exact date ?

onegirlarmy.bsky.social•7 days ago

My grandmother sailed the Queen Mary from NYC to Europe in the summer of 1930. DM your address if would like the 6 photos.

born-to-re-wild.bsky.social•46 days ago

Its hard to make out but there are ladders that go down the cliff face to the glacier to allow hikers and mountainers access to the ice. Every year they need to stick and extra 6 or 8 foot (2 metre) ladder on the bottom because the surface has dropped so much.

jacquesbouleau.bsky.social•46 days ago

Very impresive when you see the dates written on the ladders while walking down to see thé glacier

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