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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

📣📣 Call For Donations! 💰💰 I am raising funds to finance the 2026 'glacier subfossil wood' field campaign! Do you want to continue hearing tales about glaciers and trees? 🧊🌲💍 I need your help! 🤍 To contribute: wemakeit.com/projects/gla... 🙏 Please share it widely! 🙏

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A first: no snow at Weissfluhjoch (2,536 m, GR)! ❄️🔥 For 1st time in 90 yrs of measurements, there was no snowcover between July and September 2026 at the #SLF research site! Source and 📹 @slfdavos.bsky.social

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Homme Glacier and La Meije (3,983 m) at sunset today! 🤩

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

La Meije (3,983 m) playing hide and seek this evening! 😍

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ailefroide NE face (3,954 m) and its cold based hanging glacier, Le 'Glacier Suspendu', today! 🏔🧊

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Glacier Noir and Ailefroide (3,954m) today! 😍

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Golden eagle and Râteau East (3,809 m) today! 🏔🦅🤍

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tabuchet Glacier and Doigt de Dieu (3,973 m asl, 2nd highest peak of La Meije) yesterday! 🤩

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Longest lasting snowpatch in Scotland about to melt completely for the 6th year in a row! ❄️🔥 For the record, it melted only 3 times during the 20th century! 📉 rmets.org/metmatters/s... 📷 Iain Cameron

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

ONE YEAR of melting at Morteratsch Gl.! 😱 10 meters of ice thickness loss has been measured here at 2200 m asl! 🧊🔥 The massive cliff and the huge ice cave I was contemplating last October are gone... 😢 Webcam @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The last 5 years we entered an Era of extreme ice loss in the Alps! 🧊🔥 Over this period, 20% of initial ice volume has gone! 📈 This is evidenced here on Aletsch Gl. (2,900 m asl), a place where the ice shouldn’t melt to maintain glacier in balance! ⚖️ 📷 @matthias-huss.bsky.social

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Perito Moreno (Patagonia, ARG) The front of this iconic glacier is now 910 m away from Península Magallanes, thus exceeding the ~750 m measured by German geologist Rudolf Hauthal in 1899! 🧊🔥 Area loss since 2018 amounts to 3.67 km²! 📈 Source: Glaciarium El Calafate

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Devastating! 😱 The figures have just been published by glamos.ch Swiss glacier have lost 5.5% of their volume this year! (2nd worst year just after 2022)! Since 2022, 20% of total ice volume has gone! 📈 20%...in just FIVE years! 🧊🔥 Full report: doi.glamos.ch/pubs/annualr...

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mount Stanley (Rwenzori Mtns, UG) 1906 | 2022 The massif peaking at Margherita Peak (5,109 m) is the last of the three formerly glaciated zones in Rwenzori Mtns 🏔️🧊 Africa is currently losing its last glaciers... 🔥 📷 Vittorio Sella and Klaus Thymann

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On 25th Sept., took place the biennial survey of Arcouzan Glacier (Mont Valier, Ariège) the most ‘special’ of the Pyrenean glaciers! 🧊💪 Despite all the heatwaves, it was still covered in firn, but amount of remaining ice and flow are limited 🌊🔥 📷 F. Laurens / H. Lucas hanslucas.com/flaurens/pho...

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

From Grande Sassière (3,751 m) yesterday, with Gliairetta Gl. at foreground and Gran Paradiso (4,061 m) on the horizon! 🏔️🧊 Sad succession of dusty, dying, shrivelled glaciers! 🔥 Soon these mountains, among highest in the Alps, will be completely black in summer 😢 📷 @lomdumtblanc.bsky.social

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Glacier Carré (La Meije) 2008 | 2018 | 2026 The iconic ice patch punctuating La Meije (3983 m) south face and its normal route (3600-3780 m) could not resist the insane 2026 summer! 😪 Our cryospheric heritage is literally being destroyed before our very eyes! 🧊🔥 📷 PNE and Félix de Montety

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Glacier des Grands Couloirs 1988 | 2023 | 2026 The iconic route to the highest peak in Vanoise has long gone... 🧊🔥 📷 Bernard Vion

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Moody view of Adishi Glacier (Svaneti, Georgia) these days! 😍 A formidable ice fall flowing south from Gistola (4,860 m asl), whose tongue is receding and increasingly debris-covered! 🧊🔥 📷 Laurette Le Gall 🙏

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The most heavily glaciated Alpine massif as seen from a plane few days ago! 🏔️ So bare... 😲 Accumulation zones of Unteraar (lower R), Fiesch (mid) and Aletsch (up. mid) are the driest in living memory! 🧊🔥 Mont Blanc (up. L) far behind the cloud-free Rhone valley! 📷 by Sushovan Gupta 🙏

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Matterhorn SE face 27th sept. 2026 We are leaving a desert to next generations... 🔥 📷 Via Niko Froitzheim

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Rise and fall of a discipline! 🏺🧊🔥 (evidenced by discontinuation of JGA)! 'Most of ice patches in North America and the Swiss Alps had melted completely by 2010. [...] these factors have resulted in a significant decline in archaeological discoveries' 😲 journal.equinoxpub.com/JGA/issue/vi...

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Here an aerial view in Sept. 2022, thanks to italian colleagues surveys by SMI and CGI (Pics by Daniele Cat Berro) 🙏 www.nimbus.it/ghiacciai/20...

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A (not so) classic view of the lake reflections of the two most beautiful mountains in the Mont Blanc massif yesterday! 😍 📷 by @lomdumtblanc.bsky.social 🙏

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The agonising Ghiacciaio di Gliairetta, the largest glacier in Valgrisenche (Aosta, IT) as seen yesterday! 🧊🔥 The pointy peak behind the ridge is Tsanteleina (3,602 m asl) 🏔️

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Drier than you’ve ever seen it! 🏔️🔥 Mont Blanc south face yesterday from Pointe d'Archeboc (3,272 m)

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Mont Blanc and former Archeboc Glacier today! 🧊🔥✝️

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Dôme de la Sache (3601m) - Mont Pourri (3779m) today! 😍 One of the main glacier complex remaining in Vanoise! 🧊

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sad view of an agonising giant! 😢 Front of Aletsch Glacier - Aug. 2026 Bedrock is now outcropping for 1st time, splitting ice tongue in two! 📈 Ice thickness loss >15 m here (1635 m asl) this summer! 🧊🔥 Last year, I was standing on the front, beyond small ice remnant in the lake 📷 Kurt Steiner 🙏

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Gran Paradiso Aug. 1980 | Sept. 2026 Incredible repeat photography of the Gran Paradiso glaciers 46 years apart, showing the magnitude of man-made glacial collapse in the Alps - which will never be white again! 🧊🔥 📷 Antonio and Riccardo Bussano 🙏

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Bas Glacier d'Arolla 2008 | 2026 Staggering recent disappearance of the icefall below Mont Collon! 🧊🔥 For tree-ring dating of the LIA advances of Arolla glaciers see our paper here: www.researchgate.net/publication/... 📷 Pete Langdon

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Magnitude of glacial collapse in the Alps is hard to grasp! 🧊🔥 Here is Zanfleuron Pass (2,805 m asl, Les Diablerets) that became first ice free in Sept. 2022! Now ice is >10 m below the pass! 😲 Seen yesterday from Oldenhorn (3,123 m asl)! 📷 by @lomdumtblanc.bsky.social 🙏

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Diablerets Glacier from Le Döme (2,995 m asl) today! In a pitiful state after this endless summer (which isn’t over yet!) 🧊🔥 📷 by @lomdumtblanc.bsky.social 🙏

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Fascinating glacial archaeology! 🏺🧊🧐 Around 158 CE, ~50 carefully crafted lanceolate stakes (of unknown use) were placed or left on or near the Forcle pass (2,543 m asl)! ⛏️ Use of the pass was not linked to variations in ice extent (LIA wood also found there) journals.openedition.org/gallia/9888

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Findelen Glacier 1972 | 2026 During the intervening period this glacier has lost ~2 km in length, and this is entirely due to human activities! 🧊🔥 📷 David N. Collins and Neil Entwistle

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Look how the highest Pyrenees mountain looks like on Sept. 15th after the insane 2026 summer! 🌡️ No ice left below the summit (L) and Aneto's Glacier lost into the immense Little Ice Age forefield (moraines at the bottom) 🧊 A this pace, ~5-10 years before disappearance! 🔥 📷 @Discus2cT

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🧊🔥 6 meters !🔥🧊 This is what the largest glacier in the Alps has lost at Konkordiaplatz at 2900 m asl during the insane 2026 summer ! 'No words' as @matthias-huss.bsky.social (pictured here) said! 😲😱 📷 A. Linsbauer

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Torrent de St Pierre and Ailefroide (Vallouise) Sept. 2012 | Sept. 2026 Before/After the Aug. 28th storms in the Ecrins massif 🌊 Road access to Pré de Mme Carle now over, and the active channel of the stream has widened considerably 🔥 Source: www.ecrins-parcnational.fr/actualite/et...

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sunset on Mont Blanc du Tacul (4,248 m asl) and Mont Maudit (4,465 m asl) tonight! 😍

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Mont Blanc this morning! 😍 After this terrible summer 'La Jonction' between Grands Mulets and Bossons Glaciers (lower left) doesn't exist anymore... 🧊🔥😭

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Mer de Glace ice cave 1st May | 2nd Sept. Before/after the multiple 2026 summer heatwaves! 🌡️ 4 months = already 18 m ice thickness loss at this location (1,760 m asl)! 📈 That breaks the 16 m record (from 2022) and the melt season is not over! 🧊🔥 Source: Luc Moreau/Glaciolab

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

'The road will not be rebuilt'! 🔥 The end of the access to the most-visited (92,000 people in 2025) site in the Ecrins National Park—forever! Bold and lucid political response to what extreme events have becoming in the mountains! 🌊 www.ecrins-parcnational.fr/actualite/pr...

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Glacier de la Floria yesterday! 🧊 Currently the largest remaining ice mass in the Aiguilles Rouges massif after Glacier d'Anneuley split up.... 🔥

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Mont Blanc massif this morning! 😍

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The Alps are no longer white 🏔️🧊 And it's entirely our fault! 🏭🔥 Spectacular retreat of the Corvatsch Glacier on Piz Murtel (3,433 m asl, Engadin, CH) over the last 57 years compiled by @landervt.bsky.social !

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Joint fieldwork with the French 'Glacial Archaeology' team led by Eric Thirault allow us to sample subfossil trunks in Beaufortain massif! 🏔️🌲💍 Irony is that one of the trunk stood right in the middle of the path and had been trampled by generations of hikers, who had no idea how old it was! 😲⏳

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Impressive rock avalanche near the East ridge of Mont Viso (3,841 m asl) on 1st Sept. around 8:00 pm! 🔥 📷 transferred by Fabien Artero

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Summer 2026 in #Paris! 😲 By far the hottest ever recorded (average Tmax: 29.8 °C!)! 🥵 But also an unprecedented level of aridity (60 mm)! 💧 Look at the norms and previous record-breaking hot and dry summers (1911, 1976, 2003, 2022), completely shattered! 🔥 An other Era. 📈 F. Jobard

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Bonnepierre Glacier below Dome de Neige des Écrins (4,015 m asl) featuring the location of the supraglacial lake that drained regularly (e.g. during the 2024 catastrophe) Pics taken on 28th Aug. evening after huge storms that impacted the Écrins massif! 🌊 📷 via Felix de Montety

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