About this project
Glaciers are part of the Alpine landscapes and are deeply embedded in the lives of local communities. These vast ice formations, remnants of the last Ice Age some 20,000 years ago, have long been seen as eternal. They slowly melt, providing essential freshwater and hydroelectric power to a large part of the region. Winter snowfall replenishes the ice partially. However, this equilibrium is changing dramatically.
Human-induced climate change is accelerating glacial melt, rapidly transforming icy landscapes into rocky landscapes. The disappearance of these glaciers once thought to occur over millennia, now happens within a human lifetime.