Things We Never Expected To Learn From The Melting Of An Alpine Glacier

Nothing Is As Difficult As This

In 1917, in a newspaper called New York World, writer E. Alexander Powell talked about how hard it was for the soldiers who participated in the White War. “On no front, not on the sun-scorched plains of Mesopotamia, nor in the frozen Mazurian marshes, nor in the blood-soaked mud of Flanders, does the fighting man lead so arduous an existence as up here on the roof of the world,” he said.

Nothing Is As Difficult As This

Coming To An End

The Italians attempted an attack on the Tonale Pass, forty kilometers from Mount Scorluzzo, in November 1918. It went off without a hitch. After the troops defeated Austro-Hungary, other Allied nations throughout the world followed suit. The First World War was officially over in just two weeks.

Coming To An End