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Why measure the world’s glaciers? From the Himalayas to the Andes via Mont Blanc and Kilimanjaro..
Meet at the foot of the largest glaciers in the world: from the Himalayas to the Andes via Kilimanjaro and the Alps. These giants of ice, on which the peoples of the mountains and valleys depend for their water resources, have always fascinated humans, who are now concerned about their fate. Faced with climate change, glaciers are melting, but how far and how? This is precisely what glaciologists on all continents are studying, like our guest Fanny Brun, geoscience researcher, specialist in Asian glaciers. Back from Nepal, Fanny Brun shares with us her passion and her research at high altitude…
With Fanny Brun, glaciologist at the Research Institute for Development (IRD), specializing in the mass balance of glaciers, particularly in the Himalayas.
And Jean des Garetssurveyor-expert who will tell us about the new measurement of Mont-Blanc: 4,807.81 meters!