At present, it is widely recognized at scientific as
well as at public level that glaciers represent a reliable
indicator of the global climate and environmental changes
that our planet is experiencing.
A hundred years after the climbing and scientific expedition
of Duke of the Abruzzi to the Baltoro glacier in Karakorum,
a team of scientists and photographers, lead by photographer
and alpinist Fabiano Ventura, is following in his footsteps
with the aim of carrying out an accurate analysis of
the climate change effects and to compile for the first
time a visual record of the transformations that have
taken place in the Baltoro gla- cier during the last
century.
By comparing Vittorio Sella’s and Massimo Terzano’s
photo- graphs with those of Fabiano Ventura , as well
as through data collection on field and laboratory
analysis, the purpose of the mission is to highlight
the environmental and glacier changes that have taken
place over the last century in the most sensitive and
relevant system, that is cryosphere.
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