ANCIENT GLACIERS DISAPPEAR.
Strange phenomena are being noticed in the Swiss, French; and Italian Alps, amidst the - perpetual ice and glacier regions, and guides and Alpinists on their • return rom ' climba report ' that certain - ; small J glaciers have entirely disappeared, leaving beds of boulders and stones. Ica centuries •; old, which has ; probably never been; seen <by man, .can now bo seen, "n several mountains .in the different coun-< tries, and; the hot : sun is melting ii. Glaciers descending to r the lips of the ; valleys'• are reduced' in length % from j 100 yards upwards, and the geographical level.. of . the summit -of • Mount". Blanc ;■ has - been.. i lowered several yards, : while the "sun en-»-tering , old hidden crevasses •on the. Matterhorn summit is - musing , many stonf ;; *; avalanches. ,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14835, 11 November 1911, Page 3 (Supplement)
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126ANCIENT GLACIERS DISAPPEAR. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14835, 11 November 1911, Page 3 (Supplement)
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