From Chamonix to the Mer de Glace (Géant seracs) with raw LiDAR data from IGN viewed with PurpleGeo 😲 🤩

6 Billions of points.
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Source: Alex Ferrier

8 km of retreat in just 2 months...! 😱

The fastest glacier retreat ever recorded in modern history, at Hektoria Glacier (Antarctic peninsula) 📈🔥

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Via Etienne Berthier

Sanding of a Pinus cembra subossil cookie that I dated to the Mid-Holocene by the multi-talented @glacionaut (Juergen Merz)! 🥰🌲💍

Would be even better with the smell! 💚

Grande Casse W face (3855 m)
1925 | 2025

Highest peak in Vanoise massif 100 yr apart! 🧊🔥😰

Grande Casse Gl. (center) and Grands Couloirs Gl. (R)
Grande Glière (3392 m) to the L! ⛰️
📷 Bernard Vion

4m of thickness loss have been measured in the Grands Couloirs between 2022 and 2025
Data: X. Cailhol 🙏

UTTERLY SURREAL LOW ANGLE GLACIER SLIDE!! 😮😱

On Saturday at 11:00 am, a 2 km-long, 25 m-high, and 150-200 m in width section detached off the Ismoil Somoni Glacier (Tajikistan) and slid down the gorge! 🧊🌊

asiaplustj.info/en/node/354309
📽️ via @volcaholic1