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Exclusive: Glaciers vanishing at record rate in Alps following heatwaves

Reuters · Emma Farge · last updated

MORTERATSCH GLACIER, Switzerland, July 26 (Reuters) - From the way 45-year-old Swiss glaciologist Andreas Linsbauer bounds over icy crevasses, you would never guess he was carrying 10 kg of steel equipment needed to chart the decline of Switzerland's glaciers.