Witnessing the death of a glacier

A blog about Hochjochferner, a glacier in the Italian Alps

View of the Hochjochferner and its prominent medial moraine during the 鈥淎lmabtrieb鈥 in September 2003. The bumps on the glacier are from support pillars of a ski lift. Photo credit: Carleen Tijm-Reijmer

Dr. Carleen Tijm-Reijmer (IMAU, Utrecht 木瓜福利影视) and Prof. dr. Olaf Eisen (Alfred Wegener Institute and the 木瓜福利影视 of Bremen) wrote a for the EGU about Hochjochferner, a glacier in the Italian Alps. The glacier is visited every year during the .

'One of the highlights during each summer school is a one-day excursion to the Hochjochferner, a local mountain glacier, and the location of a small glacier skiing resort (one of the first skiing resorts to open in the fall for national teams) and the shooting of part of the EVEREST movie in 2014. But Hochjochferner has been famous in the touristic realm of the Alps for decades already (ferner is the local German dialect for glacier).'