The Glacier's Water Attempting to give credit to the truth value of the origin myth of an alpine glacier, this paper discloses the inner workings of a symbolic explanation of the expansion of the glacier — a phenomenon made uncanny by its erratic periodicity and which alarms, by its sometimes inordinate amplitude, peasants whose life nevertheless depends on water from the glaciers. From the first verses of a cosmogony — that of the Genesis — which the sound patterning of the week locally translates into a way of life on every God given day, to the dark vision of a glacial Apocalypse which ends the paper, with, on the way, the cyclical management of the artificial irrigation systems of the Valais (deliberatly structured so as to signify i...
Glaciers have long been synonymous with exploration, scientific inquiry, fear and fascination, and r...
National audienceLe suivi des glaciers constitue un enjeu essentiel pour l'organisation des sociétés...
An Alpine Purgatory (Lœt-schental). Rendering homage to H.-B. de Saussure, the article first collec...
For centuries high mountains and glaciers have been a source of both paralyzing fear and strange fas...
Abstract: Water in all its states (water, snow, ice): One hundred years of geographical research in ...
Les glaciers de montagne ont connu ces dernières années un mouvement de repli marqué et rapide, qui ...
Glaciers move rather slowly, but hazards like ice avalanches or outbursts of glacier lakes can cause...
Les Pyrénées abritent une vingtaine de km2 de glaciers et de névés permanents dont l'influence hydro...
Drainage conditions of the water in the different levels of the glaciers are important, because of i...
Zusammenfassung. — Die Wintersportorte und darunter die inte- grierten Winterorte bilden die Umformu...
In this paper, I am drafting the concept of anthropogenic curating, based on my research of three ma...
Glacier tourism took many forms during the last centuries. Contemplative or sporting, it turns nowad...
En haute montagne, les processus glaciaires et périglaciaires exercent un très fort contrôle sur la ...
Abstract. — The Bossons glacier in the Mont-Blanc massif has, among others, been advancing over the ...
The presence of a wurmian glacier in the Geneva lake basin has blocked the alluvial lateral deposits...
Glaciers have long been synonymous with exploration, scientific inquiry, fear and fascination, and r...
National audienceLe suivi des glaciers constitue un enjeu essentiel pour l'organisation des sociétés...
An Alpine Purgatory (Lœt-schental). Rendering homage to H.-B. de Saussure, the article first collec...
For centuries high mountains and glaciers have been a source of both paralyzing fear and strange fas...
Abstract: Water in all its states (water, snow, ice): One hundred years of geographical research in ...
Les glaciers de montagne ont connu ces dernières années un mouvement de repli marqué et rapide, qui ...
Glaciers move rather slowly, but hazards like ice avalanches or outbursts of glacier lakes can cause...
Les Pyrénées abritent une vingtaine de km2 de glaciers et de névés permanents dont l'influence hydro...
Drainage conditions of the water in the different levels of the glaciers are important, because of i...
Zusammenfassung. — Die Wintersportorte und darunter die inte- grierten Winterorte bilden die Umformu...
In this paper, I am drafting the concept of anthropogenic curating, based on my research of three ma...
Glacier tourism took many forms during the last centuries. Contemplative or sporting, it turns nowad...
En haute montagne, les processus glaciaires et périglaciaires exercent un très fort contrôle sur la ...
Abstract. — The Bossons glacier in the Mont-Blanc massif has, among others, been advancing over the ...
The presence of a wurmian glacier in the Geneva lake basin has blocked the alluvial lateral deposits...
Glaciers have long been synonymous with exploration, scientific inquiry, fear and fascination, and r...
National audienceLe suivi des glaciers constitue un enjeu essentiel pour l'organisation des sociétés...
An Alpine Purgatory (Lœt-schental). Rendering homage to H.-B. de Saussure, the article first collec...