Switzerland's receding glaciers have holes like Swiss cheese

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(29 Jun 2025)


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Rhone Glacier, Switzerland - 10 June 2025

1. Wide aerial of two people walking across the glacier + MUTE+
2. Matthias Huss, glaciologist, walking across the Rhone Glacier
3. Melting glacier water flowing in the Swiss Alps under a clear blue sky.
4. Wide aerial of two people walking across the glacier + MUTE+
5. Wide of sunlight shining through a crevice in the glacier
6. Mid of researchers drilling into the glacier for climate data collection
7. Wide of researchers putting stake into drilled hole
8. Glacier expert Matthias Huss adjusting stake/ pole
9. Pole gets pushed into drilled hole
10. Mid of a pipe embedded in the glacier
13. Wide of a researcher talking
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthias Huss, glaciologist Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
"When we drilled this stake in the last September, the ice surface was somewhere up here where my hand is. And now this is already melted. So part of the melting comes from last fall and now the melting has set in quite early in the season. This year, because there was little snow, and now the melting is strongly accelerating, because we're just going into the first heat heat wave of the season"

15. Wide aerial of two people doing research on the glacier + MUTE+
16. Mid of researchers installing research camera on the glacier
17. Close up of researchers installing monitoring equipment
18. Wide of researchers installing monitoring equipment
19. Close up of monitoring equipment (camera)on the Swiss glacier

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Rhone Glacier, Switzerland - 10 June 2025

20. Gap in glacier
21. Icicle with dripping water
22. Gap in glacier with mountains in the background
23. SOUNDBITE (English) : Matthias Huss, glaciologist Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
"So we think back like 30 years ago when the glaciers were still in a more healthy state, we would have maybe like 4 metres of ice loss per year, and this is now accelerated strongly. In the extreme year of '22, we've seen almost 10 metres of vertical ice lowering in one single year."

24. Wide of two researchers holding up a 8 m pole to show the ice loss
25. Aerial footage showing researchers holding up a 8 m long pole to show the ice loss and pan over glacier +MUTE+
26. Gap in glacier with sound of water running through it
27. Dripping water with sun and mountains in the background
28. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthias Huss, glaciologist Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
“If there are some channels in the ice through which air is circulating, this can excavate big holes under the ice. So therefore there is also a new melting process from the base of the glacier. We are seeing that this is accelerating with climate change again because we have additional heat inputs from the sides.”

29. Water dripping on camera
30. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthias Huss, glaciologist Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
“It's a Swiss cheese that is getting more holes everywhere and these holes are collapsing and it's not good for the glacier.”

31. Water running dun the mountain with sun behind the mountain
32. Camera pan over water floating
33. Water rushing down between stones
34. Water running down between stones
35. Wide foot of the glacier with water sloshing over the camera
36. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthias Huss, glaciologist Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich

37. Various of melting glacier
38. Wide of Swiss glacier landscape with researchers looking at it
39. Aerial lake and over rock formations ++ MUTE++
40. Aerial over the lake and Rhone glacier ++ MUTE++
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