Mountain permafrost: an invisible threat for moutaineers?

• Main Author: Magnin, Florence
• Other Authors: Environnements, Dynamiques et Territoires de la Montagne (EDYTEM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry )
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2021
• Subjects: geo; envir; Arctic; Canada; Mont Blanc; glacier*; glaciers; permafrost; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03260767

International audience Permafrost (permanently frozen ground) is largely present in mountain areas. Even though it is invisible, it is substantially more extended than glaciers (about 3 times more in the European Alps). Initially, permafrost was studied in the Arctic (Siberia, Northern Canada, Alask...