Glacial Mystery

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Glacial Mystery

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Guillaume Jouvet

Credits

Director: Guillaume Jouvet. Voice-over (Archive): Steven Higley ; Journalist: Antonia Mey ; Voice-over (Scientific): Benjamin Bahr. Text: Antonia Mey, Guillaume Jouvet. Cinematic consultant: Bianca Violet.

In March 1926, four young men did not return from a mountain hike at the Aletsch Glacier. It was not until 2012 that their remains were found. This film explains how scientists reconstructed the accident of the mountaineers using a mathematical model, which describes the motion of the ice.

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Article in 'Journal of Glaciology' by G. Jouvet and M. Funk

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