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Further Reading:
Dahr Jamail – The End of Ice: https://www.dahrjamail.net/the-end-of-ice/
National Geographic: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/these-melting-mountain-peaks-could-kill-thousands-can-science-help
UNEP – Mer de Glace: https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/thin-melting-ice
Britannica – Chamonix: https://www.britannica.com/place/Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
Britannica – Horace Bénédict de Saussure: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Horace-Benedict-de-Saussure
Summitpost – Mountain Guiding: https://www.summitpost.org/a-short-introduction-to-the-history-of-mountain-guiding/915085
St Gervais flood: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-philadelphia-inquirer/129155845/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news/129155886/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news/129155950/
2020 glacier evacuation: https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-advertiser/129155763/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-spokesman-review/129155817/
Eos: https://eos.org/editors-vox/mountains-undergo-enhanced-impacts-of-climate-change
Phys.org: https://phys.org/news/2022-10-glaciers-alps-faster-everand-worst.html
Archival Footage:
L’Ascension du Mont-Blanc, 1906: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy6nISWYvlI&ab_channel=StephendelRoser
Descending Mer de Glace, 1899: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrQ45gFk3U0&ab_channel=BacktothePast
Argentina glacier collapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl67WkUkBSQ&ab_channel=AFPNewsAgency
St Gervais glacier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt6Dpwbspbo&ab_channel=AFPNewsAgency
2022 heatwaves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S91HEBv_Gf0&ab_channel=DWNews
2022 Sahara dust storm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBbQbA7-VkQ&ab_channel=GlobalNews
Glacier at risk of collapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP6dOn1dqVg&ab_channel=CBSMornings
Chamonix guides cancel ascents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8ugRe2vI_E&ab_channel=WION
Climate change on Mont Blanc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p05YJ5if8Ew&ab_channel=ABCNews
Dolomites glacier collapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acNZxMxjB2s&ab_channel=DWNews
Archival Photos:
Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/2017660860/
https://www.loc.gov/item/2022644001/
https://www.loc.gov/item/94513980/
https://www.loc.gov/item/94514113/
https://www.loc.gov/item/94513961/
https://www.loc.gov/item/94514921/
https://www.loc.gov/item/94513957/
https://www.loc.gov/item/94514125/
Maps/graphics:
Chamonix glaciers map: https://www.e-rara.ch/zuz/content/zoom/10046588
Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcmassbookdig.storyofmontblanc00smit/?c=160&sp=1&st=gallery
https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.52908/
Michel Gabriel Pacccard and Jacques Balmat: https://www.wiredforadventure.com/article/michel-gabriel-paccard-and-jacques-balmat/
Horace-Bénédict de Saussure: http://scihi.org/horace-benedict-de-saussure/
Public Domain Review: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sport-in-art/
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/mont-blanc-ascent/
0:00 – Intro
1:22 – Sponsor
2:40 – The History
5:11 – Disappearing Ice
6:12 – The Mer de Glace
7:52 – Trekking Deeper
9:47 – Last Summer
12:09 – Melting Mountains
16:36 – Outro
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48 Comments
People from all over the world flying in to see this landscape being one of the main reasons for its disappearance is very ironic to watch – what a dramatic change over the years!
I really do not like the message he gives in the outro; don't adapt to the climate crisis. Do not let this become the new normal. I hope this guy tries everything to make this problem known and rally people. It is his duty to the mountains, same as it is ours.
I like that , if it doesn't improve i will adapt
this video had no need looking so goddamn beautiful
My thumbs up is for the amazing quality of this video, not the tragic story it tells of the impact of climate change.
Living at the foot of some of the highest peaks of the Alps, this ideo actually managed to bring me to tears. It's so heartbreaking to see my home melting away.
Dave's take on adaptation for those in his field makes me shudder when I think about how water and energy (esp hydroenergy) are sourced in various parts of europe and all the industries that are downstream of water and energy. It makes me wonder whether and how pumped storage (the great and very necessary complement to solar energy) can work when rainfalls are so variable and not buffered by snowpack. Can they all adapt?
"Climate change" in our life time. Humanity is but a "drop" in geologic time.
100% agree that the Climate of planet Earth changes.
The climate has changed CONTINUOUSLY since the beginning of Earth. EVEN before man. Humans can NOT change or stop this. To believe otherwise is foolish. Mother Nature ALWAYS wins.
The single largest contributor to this change is the gyroscopic precession of the axis of the Earth. – Think of a spinning top, and the wobble of that top.
Over the history of the Earth there have been “swaps” of the seasons of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. This occurred before man was on Earth and will continues when man is gone.
15:07 Did he say '1892'?
most of the mass of those glaciers came in the little ice ages in the two cold periods from the end of the roman warm period. there are records of how in the little ice ages that the glaciers swelled down the slopes and swallowed small villages and houses. to its less "global warming" more the natural warm/cold cykels of the earth. in the same cold period the passages between Sweden and Denmark completely froze over, to the extent that the Swedish king could march his army, horse, cannons and all to the danish side and force the surrender of the Danes.
MOUNTAINS ARE THE SAME , MAN IS WEAKER ……………..
Same happening in towns located in Himalyas. Climate change causing land slips & flooding…
So good Aidin! Phenomenal storytelling and videography👌🏽
Great video.
My dad climbed all over the alps in his younger days , used to terrify my sister and i when he would jump from adam to eve on thetop of Trfon in snowdonia a legeni could never compete with (Tryfonn) btw
What a beautiful video, thank you very much !
Nothing makes my heart sink as much as before and after shots of glaciers. Great production!
This was as sad as it was lovely. Well done.
Oh great another better help shill. Do your due diligence. Horrible company. So many horror stories about them
During my whole childhood I lived in the town next St Gervais, I clearly remember when they set up alarms in case one of the glacier near by broke, the "Tête Rousse" glacier, as it was acting as a barage and a massive amount of water could have been dumped on the villages under.
Fortunatelly it never happened, they were able to pump the water out on time, but as said in the video, as time goes and climate change avances, scenarios like this will occur again
I'm new to this channel. This was beautifully done.
I understand your point but it's clear these glaciers have grown, retreated and disappeared entirely many many times. And then theres glaciers like at Mount St Helens (of all places) which is the fastest growing glacier in the North America/Canada.
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Excellent. But PLEASE.. Mountains are HIGH – Buildings are TALL. Thank you.
i cried when i saw the glacier river that big just dissapeared in less than a decade
it shows how bad this situation really is
Thanks! I just subscribed 🎉
I guess we are just watching how the earth is changing as we get closer to the end of times
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I spent time in Chamonix a little over 12 years ago when living in Geneva. Climate change was obvious at the glaciers then and it saddens me where things are now.
Isn’t it amazing that there are still people today that refuse to believe that Climate Change is real, and that we’re doing it? Humanity is amazing, but too many people are swayed by propaganda, and not by scientists and professionals whose job it is to study this stuff. Instead they get indoctrinated by political forces and make these false beliefs part of their identity, and they use that against the rest of us. It’s not just an opinion anymore. It’s real, and we’re seeing it in front of us!
I dont believe the mountains are getting more dangerous. Just many more people there, the bar on their compitence is getting lower every year. And we now have hundreds of thousands of camara's present, to film all the dodgy choices they make for insta shots etc. So it looks like its more damgerous and more people getting hurt, but in reality, there are just way more tourists, with ever shrinking attention spans and lowering IQ's.
I've only seen 1:25 minutes of this video and im already subscribed, quality its just too good! Im really impressed!
I'd take my chances with the mountains before the refoogees in europe
Can't believe i've only just found this channel. Videos are phenomenal and cinematic. Great story telling too. I've learnt a lot from it!
Wow this is sad
The Ice Age will be but a memory. This is horrible.
Your videos are always so fricking amazing, wow!
If the climate was going the other way and getting colder then people would be worrying about that. In other words people would be worrying anyway, the climate is not static. It has always changed and always will.
Getting everyone to live in a yurt and sing 'Kum-ba-yah my lord' ain't going to change the weather!
People who never go anywhere near the mountains are sad because they’re not so cold anymore. Little to worry about.
I wonder if glaciers retreating has happened all the way back since the last ice age…
Yeah I guess the climate has changed a whole lot since that time…..
It's too bad climbers and mountaineers have to practice their special interests on a changing planet….
Glaciers always ether grow or melt so it’s natural there will be times when they will grow again
Well done! Amazing documentary.
I wasnt expecting such a beautiful video. Thanks Aidin!!!
I'm french and I love skiing, and I did the Vallée blanche followed by the Mer de glace by ski. It was during winter, and we had to remove our skis multiple time in a forest where there was only snow on a path. The guide told us it was almost never happening before 2010, and that was in like 2018 :/
The Amazing Chamonix. The amazing Alps. Sad but beautiful documentary. Well done
why is every stereotypically well edited, gorgeous host american news type youtube video about the world ending sponsored by betterhelp. its like a psyop. if you are going through shite mental health, glacier related or no, please find a real therapist it will make all the difference.
how is that guy working as a mountain guide, literally seeing his livelihood fall apart in the heat, but talking about adapting to the conditions? another few years my man isnt going to need crampons any more, talk about adaptation! We are so fucked as a species its crazy