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 “Almabtrieb” 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 University) and Prof. dr. Olaf Eisen (Alfred Wegener Institute and the University of Bremen) wrote a blog for the EGU about Hochjochferner, a glacier in the Italian Alps. The glacier is visited every year during the Karthaus summer school on glaciers in the climate system.

'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).' Read more.