State geologist warns

Climate change is causing Austria’s mountains to crumble!

Salzburg state geologist Gerald Valentin in the Pilatuskars: 40 meters deep is the gash from which 800,000 cubic meters of debris thundered into the Rauris Valley last year.(Bild: Hannes Wallner)

Climate change is altering our mountain world. And this has an impact not only on mountaineers, but on all of us.

"Mountaineers have long since reacted to climate change," says Salzburg regional geologist Gerald Valentin. And he should know, as he is a mountain guide himself.