The Great Outdoors – August 2019

A TEST OF

METTEL

by Alex Roddie

IN A YEAR WHEN SWISS

GLACIERS LOST 3%OF

THEIR TOTAL VOLUME,

ALEX RODDIE RETURNS

TO AN ALPINE PEAK

HE FIRST CLIMBED A

DECADE BEFORE, AND

FINDS HUGE CHANGES

PHOTOS: ALEX AND JAMES RODDIE

ALPINISM

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