Photo by @ciriljazbec | My @natgeo magazine story about the incredible efforts to save winter in the Alps has published. I have worked on the story for the past two years. Read the full story at the link in bio.
Sun-blocking plastic fabric drapes the tip of the Rhône Glacier in Switzerland. A cave dug each summer in the shifting ice has attracted tourists since 1870. For now, the year-round, 12-acre cover preserves enough ice to house the cave.
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Here are some of my favourite outtakes from the story ‘Saving winter’ published in @natgeo. These are square crops which I hate to do but seems to display better on your cell phones ?
During the @natgeo assignment we also covered a remarkable story of the Rhone glacier. For over ten years it has been covered in white blankets every summer designed to protect it from the sun’s heat. The prime goal is to preserve the ice cave at the tongue of the glacier, one of
the Alps’ great tourist destinations.
The Alpine glaciers are disappearing due to global warming. If they all go, the look of the Alps will change for good.
Jose Gomes, who helps maintain the ice cave, stands at the entrance at the Rhône Glacier. @natgeo@insidenatgeo@dominiqueanneh#savingwinter#climatechangeresilience#climatechange#melting#glaciers#rhone#rhoneglacier#alps
Photos by @ciriljazbec | Swiss glaciologist (and amateur violinist) Felix Keller, who grew up near the Morteratsch Glacier, has a plan to stop its retreat. “People say this is completely nuts,” he admits. “Maybe they’re right.”
Keller’s plan is to recycle glacial meltwater into snow. His team has tested a prototype of one of the “snow cables” that, hanging over the glacier, would shower it with 30 feet of snow annually.
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This was one of the most incredible days on @natgeo assignment last year while working on a story Saving winter. Where tourists now walk on a suspension bridge, several hundred feet above a meltwater torrent, they used to walk across ice on the snout of Switzerland’s Trift Glacier! The lake didn’t exist before this century; the bridge was first built in 2004. The bridge is a simple suspension bridge design spanning 170 metres at a height of 100 metres.
A power company has begun the permitting process to build a new hydropower dam in this narrow gorge where the glacier once provided a natural bridge. As glaciers melt, many energy companies see opportunities to maximize hydropower output in the alps. Follow link in my profile to read the story written by @denisehruby . @natgeo@insidenatgeo#switzerland#glaciers#climatechange#triftglacier#melting#natgeo
Photo by @ciriljazbec | My new @natgeo magazine story about the incredible efforts to save winter in the Alps has now been published. I have worked on the story for the past two years.
The joy of hurtling down a snow-covered mountainside on skis is what draws millions of tourists to the Alps each winter—but a few visitors prefer to go up, not down, and to do it the hard way. An ice climber grapples with a frozen waterfall in the gorge at Pontresina, Switzerland.
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