The rapidly retreating Gurgler glacier

EricChu - Mar 4, 2011 5:09 pm - Voted 10/10

I've been in exactly that same spot in August 1992, and already then the traces of the rapid glacier melting could not possibly have escaped one's eye; razor-blade-like moraine edges and the like...But boy, how it has retreated still, between 1992 and now! I could imagine that particularly the record summer of 2003 in Europe has had severe effects...back then, one was advised against going above what should normally be the snow-line, as the permafrost had been substantially reduced and thus the danger of stone-fall was extremely high...