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NAKED MOUNTAINS (2014-2019)

Cycles of long-lasting glaciations and short, warmer interglacial periods have alternated fairly regularly in the history of the Earth. The level of the ice falls and rises like ebb and flow, the intervals being just much longer. Although we live in the Great Ice Age that started about 2.5 million years ago, we are now experiencing the warm interglacial period that lasts for only about 12,000 years. But in the last 160 years, a very warm period has prevailed, the glaciers are melting, and half of their mass is already gone.

No matter how much the accelerated retreat of the glaciers might worry us, at the same time it opens up new perspectives at the denuded body of the mountain. The glaciers are like layers of garments that hide the body underneath. As the mighty, icy outfit is melting away, the bare mountain body is revealed inch by inch. As if showing its charms for the first time, it shyly strips off layer after layer, before showing its furrowed and wrinkled body hidden for thousands of years.

The melting of the glaciers unveils remains and imprints of the icy clothing of previous seasons. Traces of distant cold epochs are impressed in the form of moraines, screes, glacial lakes and valleys, polished and carved rocks that seem to have been suffering for too long the cramping glacial costume. Now they have, at last, the chance to shine in full glory.

Earth will continue to change, mountains will rise and fall away. In a future hardly comprehensible to us, the plate tectonics that created the mountains will over millions of years destroy them. The new continents will be formed and shuffled around once again, and new glaciers will clad and shape new mountain chains.

01.NM-2015 Gornergletscher-Switzerland

02.NM-2018 Aletschgletscher-Switzerland
03.NM-2018 Glacier de Moiry-Switzerland
04.NM-2015 Aletschgletscher-Switzerland

05.NM-2018 Gornergletscher-Switzerland
06.NM-2015 Aletschgletscher-Switzerland
07.NM-2017 Rhonegletscher-Switzerland

08.NM-2018 Gabelhorngletscher-Switzerland
09.NM-2018 Aletschgletscher-Switzerland
10.NM-2018 Aletschgletscher-Switzerland
11.NM-2018 Schwärzegletscher-Switzerland

12.NM-2018 Theodulgletscher-Switzerland
13.NM-2017 Schwärzegletscher-Switzerland
14.NM-2017 Aletschgletscher-Switzerland
15.NM-2017 Fláajökull-Iceland
16.NM-2018 Triftgletscher-Switzerland
17.NM-2016 Nigardsbreen-Norway
18.NM-2016 Nigardsbreen-Norway
19.NM-2016 Nigardsbreen-Norway

20.NM-2017 Rhonegletscher-Switzerland

21.NM-2018 Stockjigletscher-Switzerland
22.NM-2014 Breithorngletscher-Switzerland
23.NM-2015 Schwärzegletscher-Switzerland
24.NM-2016 Bergsetbreen-Norway

25.NM-2015 Unterer Theodulgletscher-Switzerland
26.NM-2017 Rhonegletscher-Switzerland
27.NM-2017 Rhonegletscher-Switzerland

28.NM-2014 Monte Rosa Gletscher-Switzerland

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