In Lausanne, a historic glacier walk

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In Lausanne, a historic glacier walk

The glaciers are both chroniclers of past histories, markers of climate change and metaphors of our own finiteness. They are the subject of a passionate exhibition at the Historic Museum of LausanneIn the meantime, glaciers have been synonymous with horror. At the beginning of the 18th century, a repulsive rhetoric wore on them: it has to be said that since the Middle Ages, a small glacier era gave rise to glaciers that moved to the village gate…