Another team of Cluster 3, ‘Glacier, Snow, and Hydrology’, revisited the Kyzylsu catchment in the Jirgatol district of Tajikistan. Despite weather particularly unfriendly for the region, they collected the first complete…
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The team of Cluster 3, ‘Glaciers, Snow and Hydrology’, visited the abandoned Gorbunov research station, next to Fedchenko Glacier (one of the largest non-polar glaciers in the world!) and assessed the…
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Exciting article about PAMIR with impressions directly from the field on swissinfo.ch: ‘Swiss researchers aim to unravel the mystery of the Pamir glaciers‘. Read the full German article here.
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On 3 and 7-8 June, the Health and Safety Training and the Glacier Safety Training for fieldwork were completed in Sion and on the Steingletscher above Sustenpass. Basic first aid practices…
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The official launch of the Swiss Polar Institute Flagship Initiatives is taking place on 18 May 2022 at 17h00, in Bern. At this occasion, the concept and vision of the two…
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