A melting glacier keeps shrinking Sweden’s highest mountain
The glacier that tops what was once the country’s highest summit has shrunk by a meter each year this century.
August 24, 2020
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Sweden’s highest mountain is — as it always has been — Kebnekaise, in the country’s far North. But the retreat this summer of the glacier topping Kebnekaise’s southern peak means that Sweden’s highest point is now it’s 2,096.8-meter northern peak.
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