What a disappointment!
After a climb like this, you won't find any snow.
Italian Alpine glaciers have shrunk by 30% in 60 years, 13% of which in the last ten years alone.
Between 2023 and 2024, despite the snowy winter, they retreated in particular due to the heat of July and August and the arrival of Saharan dust which, by coloring the surface, accelerated the liquefaction process.
In the photo, the Fellaria glacier (SO) which, between 2022 and 2023 alone, recorded a loss of between 5 and 8 metres of thickness in the lowest part