Module C Exam – Nelson Ari Wilhelm

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The most impressive thing for me there is always the silence. The fact that you can hear every stone rolling over the moraine, for example. Or what happened to me this summer, I experienced an icefall. On the glacier below Piz Palü. I was having my lunch break there and suddenly a rockslide - er, an icefall - happens; a big wall of ice rolls towards us.


It's clear
Climate change is progressing,
temperatures are rising,
and at some point
in 1000 years or so
the glacier will be gone


And that sound was so weird. So eerily quiet. With the ice, because every metre the ice 
more broken, more dust.
It's like both: on the one hand this rather quiet sound and on the other hand the powerful, crass sound, especially when rock is still involved.


It is clear
Climate change is progressing,
temperatures are rising
and at some point
1000 years from now, the glacier will be gone.


You may know the glacier cave that used to be there, where you can hear the water flowing - how the meltwater flows below and so on.

It will be gone at some point
That's a fact, 
but you want to slow it down
but you want to slow it down

I believe that people in such regions are more sensitive when children suddenly say, "Oh, there aren't actually any trees growing up there?" or: "Why is the snow hare suddenly so far below?"
After all, it's these things, the observations from nature, that are most important. From an economic and ecological point of view, it doesn't matter whether the glaciers are there or not - I say that very casually. But if you look at it soberly...
But I remember well the last time I was there with the children: alone, where the glacier tongue was, and where it is today. When you experience a retreat of 50 to 100 metres in the space of a year and see it with your own eyes, you no longer have to ask why we travelled by train or car.


That's a bit of a 
the wrong word, "glacier rescue"
It's more like "glacier maintenance"
It's a bit
the wrong word, "glacier rescue"
It's more like "glacier maintenance"


Because glacier rescue assumes that you save it and it stays that way
it grows again - and that is also the goal, that it grows again with all the technology that they are developing and have developed. But they are well aware that if things go on like this, it will still be gone at some point.


It is clear
climate change is progressing,
temperatures are rising
and at some point
the glacier will be gone in 1000 years or so.

Tesseo