Switzerland Has a Unique Way of Trying to Save a Prized Glacier: Wrap It in Blankets
With the balmy summer sun beating down on you , the last affair you ’d need to do is bundle up in a thick , cozy blanket . For glacier , it ’s a piffling different . Every summertime , a Swiss mathematical group swaths the Rhône glacier in enormous fleece blanket to kibosh the sun from melting it . Because the blankets are white , the glacier still appear relatively normal from afar ....