In the summer of 2003, for example, the “eternal ice cap” of the Alps lost five to ten percent of its volume. A unique type of landscape is threatened in its existence. Do we belong to the last generation that can admire the magnificent giants of ice?
This first picture is the view from the Gornergrat, above Zermatt in Switzerland. The red arrows show the line of how high the glaciers once reached at this location
These 3 images show the Rhone Glacier, first 2 taken around 1914 and the last one from September 2006 and you clearly see by comparing the last to pictures of how much the ice has receded, as the new image shows all of the lower part of that glacier is completely gone, showing only the carved stones left behind.
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