In the Alps, ski resorts are desperately battling climate change—and local resistance
In the Alps, ski resorts are desperately battling climate change—and local resistance Denise Hruby © Photograph by Claudia Ziegler, Anzenberger/Redux In Austria's Tyrol province, the development of ski resorts is colliding with local resistance to the damage it would do, all in the face of a warming climate that endangers a way of life. In the crisp , bracing air at 11,000 feet, skiers on the Pitztal glacier in Tyrol can see on a clear day as far as Switzerland and Italy, across a breathtaking landscape of snow-capped Alps. This season, however, few skiers get to enjoy the...