Analysis: Effects of climate change already affecting mountaineering beyond deadly glacier collapse on Marmolada
, which has killed at least seven people, are likely to become more common as the planet heats, according to scientists who spend their life scrutinising the ice on mountains.as a factor, as it is likely to have melted large amounts of ice.
This story will become more familiar in years to come, as these conditions are being mirrored across mountain ranges. Researcher Jacques Mourey works at the Université de Lausanne in Switzerland, where he studies the impact of climate change on sports and nature-based tourism in the mountains. “This is probably the triggering element but if you look at the pictures you can see there is a big crevice in the upper part that collapsed. The fact that there is a crevice, it shows that the upper part at the front was not connected to the bottom part. If there was not a crevice probably nothing would have happened.”He said this indicated that the glacier has probably been weakened by warmer temperatures.
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