Accelerating retreat of glaciers in Lombardy and Trentino Alto-Adige reveals preserved history of ‘White War’
Accelerating retreat of glaciers in Lombardy and Trentino Alto-Adige reveals preserved history of ‘White War’
The soldiers dug the wooden barracks into a cave on the top of Mount Scorluzzo, a 3,095-metre (10,154ft) peak overlooking the Stelvio pass. For the next three-and-a-half years, the cramped, humid space was home to about 20 men from the Austro-Hungarian army as they fought against Italian troops in what became known as the White War, a battle waged across treacherous and bitterly cold Alpine terrain during the first world war…
