This is the case, for example, on Mont Blanc, which stretches across France, Italy and Switzerland. Warnings also apply on the Matterhorn, on the border of the latter two countries.
Mountain guides have also already abandoned tours along the classic route to the Jungfrau peak in the Swiss Alps.
Remarkably early
Pierre Mathey, the head of the Swiss mountain guide association, told the French news agency AFP. “This happens much earlier in the season than usual. Usually we see such closures in August, but now they started at the end of June and continued into July.”
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At the beginning of this month, 11 mountaineers were killed after being buried under ice, snow and boulders in the Italian Alps. That happened when part of the glacier on Mount Marmolada broke off. Eight people were also injured.
unpredictable
The glacier broke after a record temperature of 10 degrees Celsius was measured a day earlier on the Marmolada, the highest mountain in the Dolomites. Scientists argue that climate change makes previously stable glaciers more unpredictable.
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