6th of December and about Kebnekaise and the glaciers. During the panemic, the roof of Sweden has become a hot spot. As I reported earlier the pressure of the are is hard. With visitors that not so used to be in the environment new phenomen will appear. Such as they left ther equipment, tents and other stuff! Well,, while you are in the area you should put some extra days for explore the immediate area. The glaciers has been in focus for the scentist since 1886. When Fredrik Enquist photographed the glaciers in the Kebnekaise area he left a invaluable data to the posterity. The Storglaciaren becomes over time the most researched glacierin the world. The standards used for measure glacier worldwide will be settled here. So why get up up on the peak of Kebnetjakka for a view over storgalicären och Björlingsglaciär and at the same time the view over The south peak and north peak of Kebnekaise. One question that is relevant is; Why study glaciers in Tarfala area? There was o lot of glacier to choose but, Storglaciären got the rigth size and got the best location for tranports etc. How many glaciers do we got in Sweden? We got over 250 glaciers, middle size of them is 1 square kilometer. Is it humans fault that the glaicers is melting? Yes and now. The global heating from the beginning of 1900 is a natural oscillation. But after1950 the human have contributed with more than 50% of the heating. How old is the glaciers in the Kebnekaise area? Well they are about 3000 years old. In the storglaciären has organic residues from 200 year BC. been found. Is it ok to drink the melt water from a glacier? The water is often clean from salt and are very like destilled water. In big amount and often is not so good. But for cooking it is ok. At the top surface  there may be digested lemmings and reindeer droppings so be careful where you take the water. This how it will looks like comparing 2013 and 2100.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJf69GXuJI4

See ya tomorrow and then it will be about to choosing tent.