From Global News.

Switzerland’s famed Gries Glacier is melting at a frightening pace as climate change accelerates unprecedented ice melt nationwide, one expert says.

Between September 2024 and September 2025, the 5km-long ice cap, situated in Obergoms, Switzerland, has lost approximately six metres of ice, according to Matthias Huss, the Director of Glacier Monitoring Switzerland (GLAMOS).

“This is a dying glacier,” Huss said on a research expedition at the glacier on Sept. 11. "Where we are standing, there will be no ice maybe five years from now," he added.

Though Huss said it will take roughly four or five decades for ice at higher altitudes of Gries to dissipate, he noted that consecutive dry years and warm summers have been key drivers to recent ice melt – adding that “much more snow” is needed to counteract those effects.

GLAMOS reports that around 100 glaciers have vanished between 2016 and 2022 in Switzerland alone.

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