![An umpteenth wretched year for alpine glaciers, while a lot of residual winter snow covered the S.E. Alps in early October despite the ninth hottest summer in 170 years An umpteenth wretched year for alpine glaciers, while a lot of residual winter snow covered the S.E. Alps in early October despite the ninth hottest summer in 170 years](https://www.severe-weather.eu/wp-content/gallery/cryosphere/umpteenth-wretched-alpine-glaciers-winter-snow-ninth-hottest-summer-170-years-konkordia.jpg)
An umpteenth wretched year for alpine glaciers, while a lot of residual winter snow covered the S.E. Alps in early October despite the ninth hottest summer in 170 years
Matthias Huss on Twitter: "20% of all Swiss #glacier ice rests in #Aletschgletscher. What an experience to do fieldwork there - endless landscape! We did the whole way from the top in
![An umpteenth wretched year for alpine glaciers, while a lot of residual winter snow covered the S.E. Alps in early October despite the ninth hottest summer in 170 years An umpteenth wretched year for alpine glaciers, while a lot of residual winter snow covered the S.E. Alps in early October despite the ninth hottest summer in 170 years](https://www.severe-weather.eu/wp-content/gallery/cryosphere/umpteenth-wretched-alpine-glaciers-winter-snow-ninth-hottest-summer-170-years-Silvretta.jpg)