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Photos of France’s melting Mer de Glace glacier

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By LAURENT CIPRIANI

CHAMONIX, France (AP) — Tourists visit France’s shrinking Mer de Glace glacier, where tarps slow melting as record summer heat thaws Alpine permafrost, triggers rockfalls and makes routes up Mont Blanc increasingly dangerous.

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