Glacier recession in the Swiss Alps

Vadret da Morteratsch from Chünetta around 1900, 2012 and 2023. The cumulative length change from 1900 to 2023 is nearly 2700 metres. Continued growth of the larch-pine-forest will eventually hide the remnant glacier tongue from this location, which is just above the moraine from the Little Ice Age (photo 1900: postcard, 2012 and 2023: Alean).

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