3 rd Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Zürich, 2005 1 The Monte Rosa east face, Italian Alps, is one of the

hanging glaciers and permafrost cover large parts of it. Since the end of the Little Ice Age (about 1850), the hanging glaciers and firn fields have retreated continuously. During the recent decades, the ice cover of the Monte Rosa east face experienced an accelerated and drastic loss in extent. Som...

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