Mont Blanc is the highest summit of Western Europe, on the border between France and Italy. The mountain is usually accessed from Chamonix in France but can be approached from Courmayeur in Italy. The rock peak of Mont Blanc is 4792 m high, but this is overlain by a thick cap of snow and ice that grows or shrinks slightly according to…
Jökulsárlón literally means glacier lagoon. At the time when first settlers arrived in Iceland, the edge of Breiðamerkurjökull, an outlet glacier of the great glacier Vatnajökull, is thought to have been 20km further north than it is now. The climate began to cool in about the year 1200, the cold spell reaching a peak in…
Mont Blanc is the highest summit of Western Europe, on the border between France and Italy. The mountain is usually accessed from Chamonix in France but can be approached from Courmayeur in Italy. The rock peak of Mont Blanc is 4792 m high, but this is overlain by a thick cap of snow and ice that grows or shrinks slightly according to…
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