“Solastalgia” is Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht’s term that describes feeling alienation or distress in familiar or beloved surroundings due to environmental desolation – such as that caused by climate change.

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A dying mountain glacier; its body shrouded to stem the loss of ice. Yet the melt continues.

The humans have tried to insulate it, but might the treatment be worse than the illness?

On the opposite side of the valley a steam train, icon of the fossil-fuelled Industrial Revolution, passes through a landscape that was filled with this glacier’s ice a mere century ago.

Filmed Summer 2022, when Swiss glaciers lost 6% of their mass; the largest melt on record.

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