Dusty Globe » vallee blanche http://blog.newsok.com/dustyglobe Just another Blog.newsok.com weblog Sun, 14 Aug 2011 11:04:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 Vallée Blanche http://blog.newsok.com/dustyglobe/2011/02/26/vallee-blanche/ http://blog.newsok.com/dustyglobe/2011/02/26/vallee-blanche/#comments Sat, 26 Feb 2011 14:05:22 +0000 katya http://blog.newsok.com/dustyglobe/?p=1206 Just got back from skiing the Vallée Blanche, one of the world’s classic ski tours. We skied down from the top of the Aiguille du Midi through the Mer du Glace, surrounded by crevasses and seracs.

It’s really frightening to see just how much the glaciers here have melted. The Mer du Glace, one of Europe’s longest glaciers is rapidly shrinking at a rate of about one centimeter and hour. At the end of the Vallée Blanche there are markers showing where the glacier came to in 1980, 1990, 2000, and 2003; the difference between 2003 and now is immense and the difference between 1980 and now is truly shocking.…

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