Spine chilling journey of Climate Change in Morteratsch Glacier
When we crossed Morteratsch Rail station, a cute train master welcomed to lead us to the trail of Morteratsch glacier!
As the trail starts, we were flabbergasted by the green and yellow pine trees standing tall on both sides of the trail with a beautiful river flowing alongside it.
Stunning Scenery isn’t it?
Lest we know that this 5 km trail in Morteratsch is going to take us on a heart breaking journey of how Climate have changed in the past 100 years and how we are ignorant of the fact by not heeding any attention to it.
Head on over to know how this beautiful scenery gave us a thought provoking journey on climate change.
Nothing in nature is a better indicator of climate change than a glacier’s length change.Knowing this, the Glaciers in Switzerland have been measured every five years since 1878.
True to the above fact a well laid trail takes you to this beautiful glacier
Though the glacier have been retreating since 1880, the retreat was slow in the earlier years. The spine chilling part of this hike is that how fast the glaciers have been shrinking in the recent years(Say from 2000).
If you observe closely during your hike, you will see that how the height of flora is decreasing when you hike your way to the Glacier and how there is no vegetation at all in the place where the ice had just melted off.
But this hiking indeed reinforced the hard core truth about the effects of Global warming.
As much bad has already been done to our beautiful earth, let’s atleast take our time to realize what is happening around us and do our best to save our earth from further damage.
It can even start with a very simple way of carrying a cloth/paper bags for shopping and thus saying no to plastic bags!
The quoted line below is one of the many lines in the educative trail of Morteratsch glacier that have touched me.
These lines are not meant for the Upper engadin region alone. It’s for everyone to understand that Nature is the only lifeline for anyone on Earth.
You can reach the trail starting point either by train or car from Pontresina or St Moritz.
This hike starts right opposite to the Morteratsch Railway station.
The trails are well marked in two to three languages (English too).
Sign boards are kept all along the hike giving people information about the Glacier retreat.
It is advised not to go beyond the safe marking zone of the hike.Pin me!
