Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Large French ski resort to close as snow shortage leaves it struggling
to build a future
Created in 1938, Alpe du Grand Serre is a ski resort located in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes,
France. It sits at an altitude of 1,368 meters, one of the lower-lying ski
resorts in Europe which has been facing a steady decline in snowfalls. As
winter snowfall becomes increasingly unreliable, the town came up with a plan
to transform the winter sports resort into an all-year resort by replacing ski
lifts. Earlier this month, the local council decided to close the ski
resort and discontinued a contract with the ski lift operator. Because of the warming
climate and declining snowfalls, more ski resorts are relying on snow machines
to stay open. As the ski seasons become shorter and the costs to keep the ski
resorts open increase, the fate of Europe’s ski resorts is gloomy. How many
chairlifts and gondolas will be running the Alps in winter ten years from now?
Read the article and learn about the impact of global warming on the Alps’s
winter sports resorts.
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