The Frozen Secrets Of The Forgotten Alpine WW1 Front | Frozen Secrets

The Alps are is one of the harshest environments on the planet. The mountainous terrain is covered by ice and snow all year round, but due to climate change this ice is melting. This is revealing all manner of frozen secrets, perfectly preserved by the ice.

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[kennethhigdon]

I won't be coming home
I won't be going anywhere
I will guard this post forever
Here on the alpine slope, where I did my final stand, I shall remain
Among the ice and snow that binds me to this mountain
A force of nature too strong, sent from above
Where spirits lead the way, the winds will never fade

[missink]

My great-grandfather was stationed and fought at the Isonzo battles aged 18.
He survived and wrote down his memoirs of this horrific experience and its really a terrible thing to read

[josephharvat]

My great-uncle, Jan, served in the Austro-Hungarian army and was killed in one of the White Friday avalanches in 1916. His body was never recovered.

[handonthegat]

My great grandfather from Switzerland was an alpine ski patroler. This is really neat to see a similar place to where he may have stayed.

[mitcesac]

The incredible thing is to know that in our humanity there are still selfless people studying, researching and rescuing the relics of the past and history.

[durstondarden]

All these disappearing artifacts, are very important reasons to get a large number of archaeologists up there to recover them from the retreating glaciers. Climate change is a natural, cyclical event played out over and over over millions of years. Welcome to Earth! All this notion of saving artifacts for the future archaeologists, and leaving them in the ground, is ridiculous - hence, thousands of artifacts are lost every year by this idealistic viewpoint. I've studied history and archeology for years on my own, because I love it so very much. I wish I had majored in it in college instead of the path I took. My father wanted me to have a business background, and since he was paying the bills, that's the direction I went.. I'm jealous of all of these archaeologists who get out there and do it in the field. These alpine archaeologists are doing a phenomenal job getting this stuff out of there. Kudos to them!

[TheGemNomad]

When they mentioned they had not seen that style of eye wear before, that REALLY REALLY makes me wonder just how well educated these people are. Those are goggles for when your outside in the snow so you dont get blinded by the sunlight which reflects off the surface.. Dogsledders wear them.... Eskimos wear them.... anyhow.. still interesting documentary.

[cmendla]

There is a book, A Soldier of the Great War, by mark Helprin which goes into some detail from the viewpoint of an Italian alpine trooper . There is also the song Soldier of Heaven by Sabaton.

Thanks for this detailed documentary

[TattooedTraveler]

I watched the whole thing waiting for them to thaw out the ice cabin with the clickbait thumbnail. Some of this was interesting but they need to bring back viewable dislikes.

[Putitinreverseterryohlawd]

As a member of the french speaking community I have to say that the pronunciation of the french names at 45:52 absolutely made my day 😂😂😂
Great doc btw

[zocalo]

All the people who died in wars are a waste for human progression, can u imagine how many of those killed soldiers could have been scientific or great doctors or just people with skills to help big time other humans,

[najroe]

There are some songs about these men, even the metal band Sabaton has one (Soldier of Heaven)

[jstring]

The first war in military history to have taken place in the mountains? Alexander the Great begs to differ.

[doomhippie]

Sorry "Germany plunged the world into the war?" Nope, that is what uniformed people still believe because it was written in the Versaille Treaty. I'm not denying that Germany bears its part of the responsibility for the war but that oversimplification is just plain wrong.

[cadilacdesert]

fascinating stuff!! The dominance of the alpine terrain in Europe back then was huge. Big time competition before the war. Freedom of the hills I guess.

[Disco_opp]

That’s absolutely so precious generational looking over the past of their loved ones ❤x

[xXTheBennyXx]

How intresting. I was literally just on that mountain in Italy some days ago and visited the moseleum and then I get this in my recomendeations.

[spookyz]

Although I'm not happy about the glaciers receding and snow caps melting, it is surely exciting to know that we will soon see what is under the ice!

[Lockbar]

WW1 newspapers still covered with WW1 poop, ...too much info.

[thomasj]

Today, we should remind these horrors well ....