Réchauffement climatique. Mont Blanc : record de température au sommet
La canicule laissait penser à certains qu’un record de température pouvait être battu sur le toit des Alpes.
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Record temps on Mont Blanc
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This Saturday, June 18 at 2 p.m., the Italian weather station installed at Col Major (4,750 m), very close to the summit of Mont Blanc, recorded the temperature of 10.4 degrees Celsius. A more than exceptional value for such an altitude. The previous record for this weather station managed by the regional environmental protection agency of Valle d'Aosta was 6.8°C. A temperature recorded in June 2019 lower by 3.6 ° C than that of Saturday.
I skied it 6th July 9 years ago in fresh powder and it was minus 28 on the summit.
Plus 28 when we got down to Chamonix.More info here, plus some photos of some 'summer skiing' glaciers:-
Record temperature on Mont Blanc, snowHeads ski forum
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Snowy Alps will be a distant memory unless we act fast
The number of snow days are falling, contributing to droughts such as that in Italy’s Piedmont regionwww.theguardian.com
If you have the ambition of doing a ski season in the Alps - it would appear sooner rather than later.Today is the last day for summer skiing on the Grande Motte glacier, Tignes - was due to be open 'til the end of July. And the Pisaillas glacier, Val D'Isere, didn't even open this summer.
French ski resorts opening: when does ski season start in France - Where can you go skiing in november - Tignes
Consult the opening dates of Tignes Tignes, Tignes tourism office, Savoie ski resort.
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Marmolada:
Glacier collapse in Italy’s Dolomites kills several hikers
A glacier broke loose in the Italian Alps and roared down a mountain sending an avalanche of ice, snow and rock onto a popular trail.www.theage.com.au
Brought back memories of this from 2019:
One of the longest ‘inbounds’ ski runs I think I have ever done, firm and fast Italian ‘packed powder’ for most of it in January 2015. Sad and scary to think what damage we are all inflicting on this planet and ourselves through accelerated climate change yet we still have deniers. My thoughts to those that have lost loved ones in this incident and the rescue crews and responders.Marmolada:
Glacier collapse in Italy’s Dolomites kills several hikers
A glacier broke loose in the Italian Alps and roared down a mountain sending an avalanche of ice, snow and rock onto a popular trail.
Brought back memories of this from 2019:
Just the Marmolada. I think they call the groomed run the Punta Roca which is about 12km with 1800m vertical. Loved the Dolomites and Sellaronda circuit. Really sad to hear these glaciers disappearing so quickly.
The mere de glacé lost 3.5m just in June this year.
Temporary closure of the summer ski area as of 29.07.2022
The thin snow cover in the summer ski area of Zermatt due to the low-snow winter of 2021/2022 in combination with the high temperatures and the associated
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They pretty much closed MB last week, melty rockfall on the Gouter route which is the most popular way up.
Danger: Do Not Climb Mont Blanc » Explorersweb
Climbers should not ascent Mont Blanc via the normal route due to extreme rockfall danger, the Compagnie des Guides de Chamonix said today.explorersweb.com
How climate change is melting the Alps’ glaciers – in pictures
Most of the world’s mountain glaciers are retreating due to climate change, but those in the European Alps are especially vulnerable'Extreme' summer temperatures cause loss of glaciers in Swiss Alps, with fears tourists will desert the area
Glaciers in the Swiss Alps are on track to record their highest loss of mass in at least 60 years, new data shows.
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I have seen it myself on the Aletsch glacier. They have to keep adding steps to the staircase up to the Konkordia hut. I hated that walk up at the end of a day back 15 years ago now and it only keeps getting worse.
Crevasses, chutes de pierre et voies impraticables : le Mont Blanc de plus en plus difficile d'accès
En cette année marquée par la sécheresse et la canicule, l'accès au sommet du Mont Blanc devient particulièrement difficile et périlleux. De nombreuses chutes de pierres et d'importantes crevasses bloquent aux amateurs l'accès au toit des Alpes, comme à d'autres sommets du massif.
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When I did it, 6th July, near midsummer, we skied the north face in a foot of fresh powder.
Tete Rousse and Gouter refuges closed due to conditions:
Switzerland’s melting glaciers reveal human remains and plane wreckage
Record high temperatures in the Alps this summer have led to the discovery of two bodies and an aircraft that crashed in 1968
