The Sphinx is the closest Britain comes to having a glacier. It has disappeared just six times in the last 300 years,but this year it is nearly gone. Murdo MacLeod joins snow expert Iain Cameron to study the state of Scotland’s permanent snow “It’s a very sorry sight,” says Iain Cameron. It is late August and we are standing in front of Scotland’s very own Sphinx. It never had claws, and paws,nor a mysterious countenance, but whether it once had they would possess melted away, or just as the rest is about to do. “Grim,” says Cameron with gravel in his tone. “It’s pretty much in its death throes.”Even lichens and mosses struggle to collect a toehold, leaving the granite pink in colour compared to the darker cliffsContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com