Mer de Glace has lost in thickness (on average across its entire surface!) 3.6 m this summer! 🧊🔥 This means 10 cm/day at 1900 m asl! (>13 m)! 😲 ...and that breaks the sad 2022 record! 📈😭 Source: www.montagnes-magazine.com/actus-la-mer...
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A (not so) classic view of the lake reflections of the two most beautiful mountains in the Mont Blanc massif yesterday! 😍 📷 by @lomdumtblanc.bsky.social 🙏
Mont Blanc this morning! 😍 After this terrible summer 'La Jonction' between Grands Mulets and Bossons Glaciers (lower left) doesn't exist anymore... 🧊🔥😭
Sunset on Mont Blanc du Tacul (4,248 m asl) and Mont Maudit (4,465 m asl) tonight! 😍
Mer de Glace ice cave 1st May | 2nd Sept. Before/after the multiple 2026 summer heatwaves! 🌡️ 4 months = already 18 m ice thickness loss at this location (1,760 m asl)! 📈 That breaks the 16 m record (from 2022) and the melt season is not over! 🧊🔥 Source: Luc Moreau/Glaciolab
Grands Charmoz right now! 🔥 Yet another Rock Avalanche this summer—especially on this face! Looks like it's going to be a big event. 📷 Ludo Ravanel
Rock avalanche from Grand Dru on 23th Aug. 2026 at 6:57 pm! 🏔🔥 Yet another (bigger one) following the one on 8th Aug. at the same location! 🎥 : Refuge de la Charpoua
Rockfall occurring right now beneath the aiguille du Plan.
Last rays on Mont Blanc du Tacul (4,248 m asl) and Bossons Glacier tonight! 🤩 Dry as hell... 🔥
Aiguille du Midi north face today! 1:15 pm Shot from Plan de l'Aiguille. Release area immediately below the ridge 🔥 🎥 Titouan Huige
Aiguille du Midi north face today! 1:15 pm Shot from Plan de l'Aiguille. Release area immediately below the ridge 🔥 🎥 Titouan Huige
Bossons Glacier on 10th Aug. with crazy Tmax of 30.3 °C in Chamonix at the time of the pic! 🧊🔥
What a disaster… 😢 This isn’t just melting any more, it’s an execution at point-blank range! 🧊🔥 Only a matter of weeks before the last branch (left bank) connecting Bossons glacier to the former front breaks off! A new proglacial lake has formed at the glacier front 🌊
Rhône Glacier July 4, 2025 | July 13, 2026 Only one year! 😲 The collapse of the south-oriented tongue of this giant is mind-blowing! 🧊🔥 📷 Tobias Büttel
Collapse feature with circular crevasses on Bossons Glacier tongue, and a new lake in formation at the front! 🧊🔥 For collapse features see: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 📷 Pascal Brun
Disfigured Bossons Glacier melting like never this summer... 😭 28.4°C in Chamonix at the time of the picture! 🥵
The roof of Europe today! 🏔 The Goûter mountain hut is visible on the rocky ridge left in front of the summit.
Not a single ounce of snow, even at the highest elevations! 🔥🧊 Aiguille de Bionnassay (4,052 m asl) this afternoon 🏔
0.7°C at 5:30 am at 4750 m asl! 🔥 Crazy temp this morning on Mt Blanc... 🌡🥵
Mer de Glace 1992 | 2026 Largest French glacier, 32 years ago and today! 😭 Glacier retreat 100% due to anthropogenic activity over this period! 📷 via @MiguelMorenatti
Today's aerial view of the Tour Ronde rock avalanche deposit that occurred last sunday! 😲 An allegory of a north face of a 3,800 m peak in the 21st century... not a single ounce of ice left! 🔥🧊 📷 Gilles Léger 🙏
A rock avalanche of impressive magnitude took place yesterday (July 19) on the north face of Tour Ronde (3,793 m asl) ! 🔥 A summit where this kind of events became recurrent in recent years with warming permafrost... 📽️ Maxim Foygel
View across Tour Glacier towered by Le Chardonnet (3,824 m asl) from above the Albert 1er hut today! 🧊🔥 Proglacial lake in formation (right)! 🌊 📷 @lomdumtblanc.bsky.social
5:00 am, the 'White Hour' over Mont Blanc few days ago! 🧊🤍
This what La Niche des Drus looks like amid this scorching summer! Vanished...🔥 This 200 m-high (usually) snow/ice steep ramp enclosed in the NW face of Les Drus, has seen two ski descents in history ⛷️ Seeing it like this, you wonder how it was even possible! 📷 @lomdumtblanc.bsky.social
Wandering above that mighty ice stream under the watchful gaze of one of the most beautiful mountains in the Alps! 🧊🏔️ All of this amid incredibly dry conditions! 🔥 Snowline on Argentière Glacier is already at the elevation of 'end of summer' in a 'normal' year... 😲
