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Chapter 1
View from the Etendard

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My name is Delphine Six and

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I'm a glaciologist at the Laboratory

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of Glaciology in Grenoble

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and we are here for 2 days with the POW team,

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to make the measurement campaign of the St Sorlin Glacier.

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So we came here with 2 glaciologists to help 
them for the measurement campaign of St Sorlin Glacier

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and spend 2 amazing days in the mountains around.

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So we are here on the St Sorlin Glacier for 2 days, in July,

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We measure it for more than 60 years to follow

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its evolution and how it answered to the climate change,

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and today we have a very particular year, 
because we are at the end of july,

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and all together we were able to touch the snow from 
the bottom to the top of the glacier,

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so it's a year with a lot of snow here, 
and that's very good for glaciers !

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We are at the first point, and we have 40 more to do !

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What we did during these 2 days, is measuring 
the milestones which are set up into the glacier,

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and we have 40 milestones on this glacier, from the bottom to 
the top of it, next to the summit of the Pic de l'Etendard

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that our POW team climbed this morning at dusk !

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We were very effective...

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The number 9 is slightly offset.
It is more around here ? Yeah...

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It's so wild right, the Pic de l'Etendard !


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Ok so we let you finish your work, 
because it seems you are working !

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Yeah we are not in holidays !

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At each milestone, we measure the emergence, 
the colour, and next we do a lot of calculation

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to understand the health of the glacier 
many time during the year and for 60 years now!

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We are at milestone 10, 
this is the highest on the glacier,

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and we have to check the colour, because there 
is several sticks of different colours attached to each others

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and after we will measure the emergence 
of the stick compare to the snow pack

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thanks to the probe that Coline already prepared...

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Right.... mhhhhh

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And what ?!

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First measure !!

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It's not complicated to be a glaciologist ! 
Right ?

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You should become one !

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We will not tell them ! 
No no we are not !

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The St Sorlin Glacier is not different 
than the other glaciers in the alps

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it is loosing volume, thickness and length.

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2015 was catastrophic for the glaciers

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but 2016 looks like a good year, 
it is still covert by snow.

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We had finally a winter with 
a lot of snow at these altitude

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which is very good for the glacier,
like a reprieve for it.

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We try to understand here how the sun radiation,

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the atmosphère, the humidity, the wind

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are influencing the snow and ice melt

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Look a these rock at the bottom of the slope

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2 years ago they were not visible

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Same at the top on the ridge,

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in real summer without snow,
there is a huge difference...

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So we checked 5 milestones, 
and them almost 40 !

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It's was my first time in the mountain after my surgery

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and it really give another dimension,
another approach to the mountain

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It's amazing to have another view on 
our environment, where we ride or climb usually

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In Freestyle skiing, it's not the most sustainable practice

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but I'd like more and more people to have this in mind,
and act to reduce our impact

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If the climate change is getting worst, 
in 2050 it will be impossible to climb

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on the glacier of St Sorlin 
to reach the Pic de l'Etendard

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This glacier will have disappeared.

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It's pretty rare but 4 glaciologist girls
in a team of 4, we beat some records !

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and 2 very competent interns !

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Yeah and we had a lot of fun !