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Like we've done. the summit is actually in the clouds up there at the moment. they had nothing to actually adhere them to the ice. they had an ice ax. all they could use was basically their body weight to stop the wall. so if you would be falling on the right, i would be jumping on the left. that was the way to stop people on the mountain. >> wow. >> then later, they invented these ice screws. and with the hook, i grab the end of the rock. >> look at that. brilliant. man, you're like the french macgyver. macgyver. there is something therapeutic about being forced on focus on the little things.

That this glacier sunk by more than 50 meters. >> in your lifetime. >> yeah. and it is so fast now. and the speed with which climate is changing, it's 20 times faster than any natural temperature change. which happened before human beings became so active. >> without the benefit of time travel, it's hard to imagine such massive changes. but when the years are compressed into seconds, here's what that retreat really looks like. photographer james baylaw has dozens of cameras aimed at glazers around the globe, each snapping a few frames a day. as you can see in his film "chasing ice," which stit...

Trucks into this valley. and for seb and his friends and thousands of earth scientist s arnold t around the world, that is part of the problem. they say the fuel we use to power our lives, move our goods, heat our homes and yes, fly our helicopters over the alps is warming the planet in dangerous ways. they say the more carbon we burn, the more heat from the sun gets trapped in our atmosphere just like a greenhouse. every year they reveal new bits of evidence like noaa's animation of the loss of perennial ice in the arctic, the old ice. it's almost gone. nasa points to a 97% consensus among cl...

Planet written in the glaciers above their town and in the ice beneath their boots. i've read countless scientific warnings about climate change, but i want to see it through the eyes of people who really know their ice. and for that, there are few better places than france. on a map, it just looks like a border town up in the attic of europe. but to mountain folk, this is the mother valley. lying in the shadow of a giant, the white lady, ma blanc. and surrounding this everest of needles of granite and hallways of powder. this is where the winter olympics were born. this is the backdrop for bi...

So it's kind of an alpinist view, you know, solo climbing, solo climber, they have no mistake possible. here, same thing. >> we can't make a mistake. >> we know if we have, if we get me mistake, it's finish. >> but on a bad day, all the control and technique in the world doesn't matter. and a fate worse than death is watching that bad day happen to your kid. >> my -- my first boy was a very good skier, very sportif, very famous, and he get killed. not because he fall down, but because part of ice fall down and push him down and was killed. >> it's been ten years since