ZURICH - Glacier monitoring group GLAMOS said the 2025 summer was again severe for Swiss ice, after heat waves in June and July stripped snow off measurement sites weeks earlier than the late-twentieth-century average. Scientists stressed that a single summer is not a trend on its own. The stack of recent summers is.
The work is unglamorous: helicopters, stakes, snow pits. The photographs that travel well are the ones of grey ice and a hut that used to sit at the edge of white.
After Blatten
Conversations with resort mayors now include words that used to stay in papers: permafrost, slope angle, evacuation time. The Blatten collapse in May made those calls less theoretical.