A tourist has posted “staggering” photos of himself and his wife at the same spot in the Swiss Alps almost exactly 15 years apart, in a pair of photos that highlight the speed with which global heating is melting glaciers. Duncan Porter, a software developer from Bristol, posted photos that were taken in the same spot at the Rhone glacier in August 2009 and August 2024. A once-small pool at the bottom, out of sight in the original, has turned into a vast green lake. “Not gonna lie, it made me cry,” Porter said in a viral post on social media platform X on Sunday night. Porter and his wife had taken the original photo from a viewpoint by a “Wes Anderson-style” hotel that has since shut, and hung it up in their kitchen.

Source: The Guardian August 06, 2024 10:15 UTC