Battling to save the melting ancientglaciers, Alps opted for a new formula to save them. They have been draped with white blankets to protect them from the summer heat.
Europe is currently sweltering under a major heatwave, with wildfires raging in Portugal, Spain and France.
Much of it has been covered up to try andstop it from melting.
People visited the Rhone Glacier inSwitzerland today but didn¡¯t see it as it generally looks, Metro reported.
It is feared that Switzerland could lose all its glaciers by 2100.?Other glaciers in the country have alsocovered with blankets, such as the glacier on Mount Titlis in centralSwitzerland.
The Gurschengletscher glacier is alsocovered with blankets when it is particularly at risk.
The Met office has also issued weatherwarnings for extreme heat with hot air from the continent is due to reach theUK from Sunday.
The UV resistant blankets were not putthere in response only to this heatwave, however, but due to a warming climatemore generally.
For five years, people have hiked up tothe glacier to lay the sheets over it to try and protect it.
The Rhone Glacier, above Gletsch near theFurkapass, is called as tha major source of tourism for the region as it iseasily accessible and has a grotto which can be visited.
It is the source of the river Rhone, andalso supplies water to Lake Geneva.
It is believed that blankets are estimatedto reduce the extent of ice melting by up to 70%.
This is needed, as during the last 120years it has lost around 1,300 metres leaving exposed stone where ice used tobe.
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