That's how it went with the glacier project at Helags - follow up to the top

The canvas was dragged up to the glacier with the help of crampons and ice axes on 23 June and removed from the glacier on 10 September.

Similar attempts to reduce the melting of a glacier by covering part of the surface with canvas have been previously tested in the Alps, attempts that have given good results.

Pulled the cloth instead of flying

But it was the first time an attempt was made in Sweden and unlike the projects in the Alps, they chose here to make the whole project as climate-smart as possible by pulling the canvas over the mountain by hand instead of flying it up.

Behind the project are the glaciologist Erik Huss and the adventurer Oskar Kihlborg, both involved in the climate issue.

- It is important to do visual projects as the climate issue is so abstract and complex, they both explained when they dragged up the screen this summer and SVT climbed with.

In the clip above, you can see what it looked like at the top when the snow melted during the summer and what it looks like now.

(The pictures in the clip from June are taken by SVT and the pictures from September by Anders Klapp.)