The beautiful European landscape that changed so much in 15 years it 'made tourist cry'

A British couple's photographs from a beautiful spot in the Swiss Alps taken 15 years apart have gone viral after they showed the astounding impact of climate change melting a glacier. Duncan Porter and his wife Helen posted their time-travelling travel snaps on X showing the pair standing at the same location by a railing overlooking the Rhône Glacier high in the mountains of central Switzerland . The glacier is one of main feeders of water for Lake Geneva.

In the older image, almost the entire mountain valley is filled with a huge river of ice hundreds of feet high. But in the second photo, which Mr Porter said was taken nearly 15 years after the original one, the glacier seems to have virtually disappeared leaving behind a large pool of grey water in the foreground. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.

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