Wednesday 7 December 2011

Remember these?

I’m up early today, and hear on the news that in the past forty years 25% of the glacier area in the French Alps has disappeared (melted to be more precise) and the glaciers are in retreat. This mirrors the picture found in other Alpine regions across several nations, in particular Switzerland, Austria and Italy.

It seems an apt time to post some photographs from our archive taken about 10 years ago.










This ariel photograph was taken by Nasa's Landsat spacecraft looking down on Mt Blanc and the Mer de Glace, the biggest French glacier, snaking towards the north west.


7 comments:

  1. Beautiful photos. The world has always changed over the years so I guess this is nothing new although perhaps we are speeding things up a little!! Diane

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  2. Global warming? What global warming? ;-(

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  3. There have certainly been big changes over the years we have been visiting the Alps. Lovely photos Gaynor.

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  4. There may be be no snow in the Alps, it's because its all been dumped on the leek Buxton road.... GRRR!
    Fab photos BTW!

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  5. Thanks for sharing the superb photos, Gaynor.

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  6. SweetpeainFrance8 December 2011 at 15:55

    Such wonderful photos for you to remember that you were there. The world has always changed and change it will...... we are just a mere speck in the grand scheme of things.

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  7. Beautiful pictures, just beautiful. Have you been to the top of Mt. Blanc? As in taking the elevators at the top?

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