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This startling revelation was reported last year, on October 20, 2010, but the mainstream media seems to have somehow missed it. An honest mistake, I'm sure. One of the last remaining glacial phenomena in the southern Pyrenees, Hell had been in a state of steady decline. But this last summer Hell advanced and "now has a healthy look enhanced with the arrival of fresh snow in recent days." While this progress may be an isolated incident, says this article on Pirineodigital.com, the news was received with excitement among experts because the advance breaks the previous trend.
According to José Antonio Cuchi, a geologist and professor at the University of Zaragoza, Hell has "a thick layer of hard snow, about four meters thickness on pre-existing ice, and she is already falling on fresh snow." Pictures from the last two Septembers show the dramatic difference in ice mass in just one year.
According Cuchí, the phenomenon may be due to weather conditions this
year. (No kidding.) The 2009-2010 winter was abundant in summer
snow and snow fields have remained on the south side of the Pyrenees.
Also storms in recent weeks have deposited fresh snow on the snowfields.
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