France’s Mont Blanc has shrunk by more than two metres in two years • FRANCE 24 English

France’s tallest mountain Mont Blanc has shrunk by over two metres in height over the past two years, researchers said Thursday, measuring the Alpine peak at 4,805.59 metres (15,766.4 feet). 
 
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This is the Intrepid team charged with taking more blanc’s measurements armed with state-of-the-art technology they use a GPS device to measure the ice cap and a drone to analyze changes in the volume of snow and the results are in this year M BL measured 485 M and 59

CM 2.22 CM down on its 2021 measurements the Mountain’s height has been on the decrease for over a decade but the scientists advise caution although in the long term climate change could affect the glacier what dictates fluctuations at the Summit is precipitation we know very well that

This altitude isn’t a matter of global warming because the summit of MBL isn’t melting the summit of MBL is governed by the snow that falls and the wind that removes the snow or doesn’t this is what causes the altitude to vary from one week to the

Next the top of the ice cap is at- 15° C but further down there are signs that the glacier is warming although still below zero M Blan will be measured again in 2025