Equipped with cutting-edge tools and a drone, around twenty people climbed the summit in mid-September to carry out point-by-point measurements.
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00:00 It's difficult to perceive with the naked eye, but Mont Blanc has shrunk again.
00:07 Measurements taken every two years by a team of expert topographers of Europe's highest
00:11 mountains show that the altitude above sea level has lost 2 metres and 22 centimetres
00:17 compared to the last measurement.
00:21 European glaciers, which are particularly vulnerable to rising temperatures due to their
00:25 relatively low altitude, lost around a third of their volume between the year 2000 and
00:30 2020 according to data compiled by scientists.
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