AFP通信のインスタグラム(afpphoto) - 7月29日 20時57分
AFP Photo 📷 @mber12 - Shrinking glaciers and rockfalls point to climate change in Alps -
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High in the French Alps on the famed Mont Blanc mountain range, it is not hard to find evidence of the toll of global warming.
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Visitors arriving from the last tramstop before the 4,809-metre summit are forced to take 20 steps more each year to reach the retreating "Mer de Glace", or Sea of Ice glacier, France's largest.
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At one point, a sign on the edge of the valley says: "Level of the Glacier: 1990." Now the ice has shrunk far below.
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Older visitors who return can recall a time when they could touch the ice just outside Montenvers tramstop near the summit. On the glacier itself, the once immaculate pristine surface is now depressed and greyish.
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A grotto visible through the glacier's blue frozen mass lit up with festive lights like a nightclub has become a popular stop for tourists. Now workers have drapped white tarpaulins held in place with large stones over the ice tunnel in a bid to protect it from the sun.
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And mountaineers on the surrounding peaks follow a new ritual. Over the sound of mountain water, they stop more often to listen for the clatter of falling rocks on Europe's tallest peak.
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The damage is increasingly clear from rockfalls that scar the mountainside and damage routes used by climbers visiting Mont Blanc.
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