Cloth by Francesco Merlini

For a few weeks in 2021, something unusual happened to the mountains near the Tonale pass in Italy: they were covered with hundreds of metres of immaculate sheets, sparkling under the sun’s rays and reacting like sails to every gust of wind. The reason for this is an attempt is being made to save the Presena glacier on the border between Lombardy and Trentino-Alto Adige. This giant has been dying for some decades now, but to protect it from melting the slopes of this glacier are covered with geotextile sheets placed by the Pontedilegno-Tonale consortium. However, even with this protection, the melting shows no signs of subsiding, and proceeds at an ever more pressing pace.