Glaciers worldwide are rapidly melting due to climate change. Rising global temperatures fuel the shrinking of these colossal ice formations. A man shared two pictures that show such changes in Switzerland’s Rhone Glacier. His post sadly captures the glacier’s devastating state. The image shows a picture a man took in front of Rhone Glacier in...
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A hiker discovered a wealthy traveler’s remains on a skiing glacier in Switzerland. They turned out to be 400 years old.
The Theodul Glacier was expanding when a mysterious man in thin leather shoes trekked across its surface about 400 years ago. This field of ice high in the Alps, below the iconic and imposing Matterhorn, formed a treacherous pass between what is now Switzerland and Italy. It was the middle of the Little Ice Age,...