Swiss Rhône Glacier suffers one extreme year after another

The snow reserves that built up this winter on Switzerland’s glaciers have already been used up. The Rhône Glacier in canton Valais is a testament to the scale of this phenomenon. Matthias Huss, director of Glamos, the Swiss glacier monitoring network, documents these changes season by season. “Since I was last here two weeks ago, we’ve lost 1.4 metres of ice,” said Huss, adding that this amounts to almost 10 centimetres a day. “That’s a huge amount.” Since the start of this year’s measurements…