The following photograph is from a Daily Mail article, "Fascinating new book reveals stunning vintage pictures of the Alps, from a time when the first mountain climbers 'were considered mad' and glaciers were TWICE the size they are now." According to the article, the photograph is of the the Rhone Glacier in the Swiss Alps and dates from around 1890. The quip in the headline about glaciers being "TWICE" the size as now made me laugh. Of course they were bigger then! The world was just coming out of the Little Ice Age.
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