This is the fourth stage of the project L’Adieu des Glaciers: Photographic and Scientific Research, produced by Fort Bard. Since 2020, visitors have been able to take an iconographic and scientific journey among the glaciers of the main four-thousand-metre peaks in Valle d’Aosta, and learn the story of their transformations. Numerous bodies and institutions have rendered possible this ongoing in-depth study of Monte Rosa, Monte Cervino, Gran Paradiso and Mont Blanc, developed over a period of four years, one for each of these physical and cultural markers of the Alpine region. After exploring the Monte Rosa group, Monte Cervino and Gran Paradiso, the journey to discover the history and health of Italian glaciers ends in 2023 with a focus entirely on Mont Blanc.

The exhibition Mont Blanc: Photographic and Scientific Research, presented at Fort Bard from 29 July 2023 to 7 January 2024, will contain an extraordinary wealth of information: 142 authors, 29 research files, 73 photographs and a series of photo-comparisons tell the story of Mont Blanc as an extraordinary place for scientific investigations in fields ranging from glaciology to geomorphology, pedology, snow science, and climatology. Eight thematic sections are featured inside the Cannon Rooms. The exhibition was curated by Enrico Peyrot, photographer and historian of photography; and Michele Freppaz, professor at the Department of Agricultural, Forestry and Food Sciences at the University of Turin, who took care of the scientific part.