Status: 07/05/2022 07:51
According to mountaineer Messner, the glacier’s breakup was difficult to predict. at the daily topicsBut he also said in the interview that the climate crisis is particularly noticeable in the mountains – it’s more dangerous there than it used to be.
After the deadly glacier avalanche in the Dolomites, mountaineer Reinhold Messner criticized humanity for dealing with nature. “We all have less connection to nature than generations before us,” Messner said in an interview with Daily Topics. “That’s the big problem.” Man heated up the world and now he has to live with the consequences. “We don’t have a chance to stop this.”
“We feel the consequences of climate change mainly in the mountains”, says Reinhold Messner of the accident in the Dolomites
daily topics 21:55, 7.4.2022
“We have to learn to deal with it”
The consequences of climate change are particularly visible in the mountains, Messner said. Glacial retreat will also affect the Alps. Messner thinks little of measures like white tarps over glaciers to at least slow the melting ice. “These are ridiculous attempts to defy nature.”
In his opinion, the accident in northern Italy, in which at least seven people died, was difficult to predict. “The avalanche appeared under the ice because water had accumulated there.” In hindsight, it’s always easy to say it was predictable. However, according to Messner, it is generally more dangerous on glaciers today than it used to be. “We have to learn to deal with it.”