2. 2014

Alps in April

I'm convinced the European yeti (Gigantopithecus modernii) is out there somewhere, and I'm determined to find it. After all, such little known creatures deserve the attention of modern veterinary medicine as much as any other species. And besides, it's been starting to get hot in St Kitts. And so during the April break I headed for the Alps once more...
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    These ice lakes on the glacier near the crevasses provided a perfect water source for the yeti - and possibly a bathing area as well. But still, it seemed I would have to enter the crevasses to encounter the yeti, and my courage was not at its best this day...
    Here we're descending the lower reaches of the Mer de Glace (sea of glass) glacier
    The ice used to be about 100 m higher at the top of the moraine there. The glacier is lowering by about 10 m/year due to global warming and may disappear entirely within a decade or two :(:(