One of the most popular days we teach here at the Blencathra Centre is about glaciation. Students will take a walk through Easedale Valley, a walk popular since the times Wordsworth visited Lancrigg at the bottom of the valley before settling in the area. While passing through the area students interpret the landscape, attempting to identify evidence of depositional and erosional processes. One of the biggest challenges for students and tutors alike is fully grasping the scale and impact of glaciers as well as the importance of understanding their place in current global geographical issues.
As part of the efforts to add to this understanding the Field Studies Council, including staff from the Blencathra Centre, are partners in a project in Norway which aims to study the changes to a glacier over time, follow the link for more information about this summers expedition : www.tunsbergdalsbreen.no/news_no.php
However this is not the only evidence of glaciers are changing, this story on the bbc website is truly remarkable, and as such feel that it speaks for itself, please have a look.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-15216875
