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A giant low angle glacier detachment (40 M m3) occurred on 1st Nov. 2022 in the remote Kunlun range (Tibet, 90.869° E, 35.969° N) and was discovered only 2 years later! 😲🧊🌊

Before collapsing the glacier reached speeds of up to 46 m/day! ⚡️

Must read! 🔥

www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...

A serac broke off high on the steep Ultar Glacier and the avalanche reached the Hunza Valley, covering Karimabad and surroundings with snow and dust! 🧊❄️😱

Ultar Sar (7,388 m) is the peak at the background right! 🏔️

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Based on climate trends in the Caucasus, Kolka Glacier was not expected to return after the 2002 collapse. But it did! Today it has already regained about 50% of its pre-collapse mass, mostly thanks to constant snow, ice, and rock avalanches filling the basin.

Photos from our 2021 field trip!

#Avalanches are of key importance to #glaciers worldwide. An international research team led by Marin Kneib (WSL & ETH Zurich) shows that up to 22% of the snow on glaciers comes from avalanches. WSL-News: www.wsl.ch/en/news/aval... @marinkneib.bsky.social @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social

WTF

Avalanches again, but this time in beautiful Kyrgyzstan (2021). The mountains looked surreal in the windows of the Kyrgyz State Historical Museum. I really miss field trips now, even though I didn’t really enjoyed them at the time. Funny how that works.

It is hard to believe, but I miss Russian winter after 3 years in the United States. Russian far North is my favorite place in the country (after Central Caucasus, of course). Here are some photos from Khibiny mountains (Kola peninsula), where we did snow and avalanche assessment in Jan 2018 & 2022

Zermatters are really working hard to destroy their land! 😭

After Gorner dam, digging Theodule gl. and excessive cable cars, introducing...

A 260 m-high tower! 😲

'to fix the housing shortage caused by tourist pressure' 😂

Wait, have you thought about regulating this unrestrained tourism?! 🤔🤬
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In this animation, we can see that the glacier detached sometime between September 4 and 21, 2025 (actually Sept 17-21), and a piece traveled ~5km down valley to just below the village of Safedob. And then on Oct 25, the glacier farther upvalley again advanced, pushing the detached piece another km

It's v hard to tell but it might be Didal Glacier, which is surge-type and actually was surging in the months prior to this video. I don't know if something switched allowing the runaway mode seen in the video. Curious for thoughts of other glaciologists 🧪⚒️❄️ www.planet.com/stories/dida...

UTTERLY SURREAL LOW ANGLE GLACIER SLIDE!! 😮😱

On Saturday at 11:00 am, a 2 km-long, 25 m-high, and 150-200 m in width section detached off the Ismoil Somoni Glacier (Tajikistan) and slid down the gorge! 🧊🌊

asiaplustj.info/en/node/354309
📽️ via @volcaholic1

FACTSHEET about Birch Glacier collapse by glaciologists of ETHZ @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social 🧊❄️

Don't miss that read! 🙏

polybox.ethz.ch/index.php/s/...

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