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Thats beautiful. It saddens me to think how much more robust the snow might have been just a couple decades ago.
Yep. I think I'll be chasing snow as it goes the way of the dodo
The Southern Alps have lost over a third of their ice volum since the 1970s, with the rate accelerting in the last decade.