PARIS, Oct 5 (Reuters) - The Mont Blanc, Western Europe's highest peak, has lost more than two metres (6.5 ft) in two years and shrunk to its lowest level since precise measurements started 22 years ago as warmer summers reduced snowpack size, researchers said on Thursday.
She added this year's particularly low level was probably due to a lack of rain and a hot summer.
When precise GNSS satellite measurements started in September 2001, the Mont Blanc stood at 4,010.40 metres.
A view of the Mont Blanc mountain from Le Brevent, in Chamonix, France, June 14, 2022.
Farouk Kadded at Leica Geosystems said that this year, for the first time since 2015 - when scientists started measurements in June too - Mont Blanc's snowpack in September had remained virtually unchanged from June.
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