Col du Tsanfleuron (Actualité 2023, par Fabrice Coffrini) - Swiss Press Award

This picture taken on September 13, 2022 at Glacier 3000 resort above Les Diablerets shows tourists walking on the Tsanfleuron pass free of the ice that covered it for at least 2,000 years next to blankets covering snow from the last winter season to prevent it from melting. - The thick layer of ice that has covered a Swiss mountain pass between Scex Rouge glacier and Tsanfleuron glacier since at least the Roman era has melted away completely. Following a dry winter, the summer heatwaves hitting Europe have been catastrophic for the Alpine glaciers, which have been melting at an accelerated rate