The Melting Of The Alpine Glacier Revealed Something Unexpected From The Past

Nothing As Arduous As This

In the journal New York World in 1917, writer E. Alexander Powell discussed how difficult the White War was for the soldiers involved. “On no front, not on the sun-scorched plains of Mesopotamia, nor in the frozen Mazurian marshes, nor in the blood-soaked mud of Flanders, does the fighting man lead so arduous an existence as up here on the roof of the world,” he said.

Nothing As Arduous As This

It Was Finally Coming To An End

The Italians attempted an attack on the Tonale Pass, forty kilometres from Mount Scorluzzo, in November 1918. It went off without a hitch. After the troops defeated Austro-Hungary, other Allied nations throughout the world followed suit. The First World War was officially over in just two weeks.

It Was Finally Coming To An End