How times are always changing
04/30/2015
While taking photos for the Porsche in-house magazine "Christophorus" with a 911 Carrera S on Swiss mountain passes, its great-grandfather suddenly flitted through the picture as a silver Porsche 356.
Not quite ready, I captured the moment. There are around 60 years between these two cars. The pass road has hardly changed in that time. The hairpin bend in the picture may have become a little wider, but its position is still the same as it was in the 1950s. So what is the difference to the past? Cars have gotten bigger over the years, but the Rhone glacier has gotten smaller and smaller. Only a tiny glacier tongue still stands out in the picture.
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Once the dominant glacier, the Rhone Glacier reached right up to the foot of the mountain. Massive and enormous, it can be seen in historical pictures such as the one shown here from the Zurich educational publisher from around 1900. How much more fascinating would the Porsche picture with the glacier reaching down into the valley look?
Perhaps a colder time will come soon and our descendants at "Zwischengas" will remember this blog and add a new picture.
